RUSSIA & UKRAINE: Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: 2014-#51 :: Sunday, 9 March 2014

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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#51 :: 9 March 2014
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1. Interfax: Kyiv hopes to settle relations with Russia diplomatically.
2. Financial Times: Ukraine lays down conditions for talks with Russia.
3. Interfax: Russian Foreign Ministry source responds to reports Ukraine talks rejected.
4. PBS Newshour: German influence on Russia could be key in Ukraine dispute.
5. ITAR-TASS: Russian envoy at UN calls for thorough investigation of regime change in Kiev.
6. The Independent on Sunday (UK): Ukraine crisis: Snipers that caused chaos during February protests in Kiev were Russian-backed, says minister.
7. Reuters: Mickey Mouse and armed men: surreal scenes on Kiev protest square.
8. RFE/RL: As Kyiv Moves To Control Donetsk, Pro-Moscow Feelings Linger.
9. Interfax: Crimean parliament’s decision to join Russia is forced measure – speaker.
10. RIA Novosti: Crimea Says No Talks With Incumbent Kiev Government.
11. Reuters: Russian forces tighten grip on Crimea despite US warning.
12. Bloomberg: Crimea Takeover Builds to Expose Ukraine Escalation Risk.
13. The Herald (Scotland): Angus Roxburgh, Thin Red Line. As Crimea prepares to vote on whether or not to split from Ukraine and become part of the Russian Federation, Angus Roxburgh attempts to explain why an increasingly belligerent and paranoid Vladimir Putin views the situation in Ukraine as a direct challenge to his position as Russian president and a threat to his country’s security.
14. The Independent on Sunday (UK): Mary Dejevsky, Ukraine crisis: Russia’s neighbours are nervous – but the huge costs of intervention beyond Crimea are likely to make Moscow think twice. Despite the fears of small states, President Putin is unlikely to seek to redraw his country’s borders
15. New York Times: Sovereignty vs. Self-Rule: Crimea Reignites Battle.
16. The Scotsman editorial: Europe should honour the Crimea outcome.
17. AP: Russia in patriotic fervor over Crimea.
18. Sean’s Russia Blog: The Cost of Crimea. (Leonid Bershidskii)
19. Reuters: Far-right leader to run for president in Ukraine.
20. New York Times: Ukraine’s Fight to Fix Economy Is Also a Fight for Legitimacy.
21. www.russiatoday.com: Ukraine misses gas payment deadline, risks halt on supplies – Gazprom.
22. Vedomosti: Yevgeny Gontmakher, Russia makes transition to mobilization-based social policy. No matter how Russian-Ukrainian crisis ends, it can already be stated confidently: We are making transition to mobilization-type social policy at forced pace.
23. Al Jazeera: Olesia Oleshko, A destitute country: Can Ukraine survive its economic crisis? Ordinary Ukrainians are already feeling the effect of the post-revolution economic downturn.
24. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Running from the ruble? (interview with Mark Adomanis)
25. The Vineyard of the Saker: Ukraine SITREP March 8, 16:29 EST (and a little debunking).
26. The Mirror (UK): John Prescott: Ukraine crisis is best solved by ‘jaw-jaw’ and not ‘war-war’
27. Al Jazeera: Alexander Nekrassov, President Putin’s sarcasm. Have Western diplomats lost their sense of humour and missed the big picture?
28. Wall Street Journal: Matthew Kaminski, Why Putin Fears Ukraine: It’s an Alternative Russia. Shoots of transparency and humility in the new Ukrainian government might give ideas to Russians across the border.
29. Institute of Modern Russia: “Those Who Unleash a War on Ukraine Will be Damned by the Russian People.” Russia’s Opposition on the Ukraine Crisis.
30. The Observer: Ukraine: Are oligarch appointments at odds with new sense of fairness? Appointment of super wealthy to positions of political power upsets protesters who hoped for new era
31. CNN.com: Aaron David Miller, Five myths about the Ukraine crisis.
32. The Globe and Mail (Canada): David MacKinnon, How the West lost Putin: it didn’t have to be this way.
33. Anchorage Daily News: Putin doesn’t see America as weak, former U.S. ambassador to Moscow says. (Michael McFaul)
34. Al Jazeera: Vladimir Golstein, Why do they hate Russia? The West is guilty of the same crimes it accuses Russia of committing.
35. Boston Globe: Leon Neyfakh, Putin’s long game? Meet the Eurasian Union. It starts in 2015 and sounds like a scheme to rebuild the USSR, but its history is quite different – and troubling for the West.
36. The National Interest: Robert Golan-Vilella, Ukraine Is Not About Us and It’s Not Ours to Lose.
37. The New Yorker: David Remnick, Putin’s Pique.
38. US-Russia.org: William Dunkerley, U.S. Reveals Ukraine Regime Illegitimate.