RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL contents with links :: 2014-#77 :: Monday 7 April 2014

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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#77 :: 7 April 2014
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1. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Russia Isn’t Alone: All Of Eastern
Europe Has A Demographic Problem.
2. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Looking For Demographic Doom? Don’t Look
At Russia, Look At Its Neighbors.
3. RIA Novosti: Russia, US Complete Warheads-for-Fuel Program.
4. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Putin’s Only Option in Ukraine is to
Use Force, Illarionov Says.
5. RIA Novosti: Russia Will Not Further Fortify Border With Ukraine.
6. RIA Novosti: Eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk is Different From Crimea –
Russian Lawmaker.
7. New York Times: Protesters in Ukraine’s East Call On Putin to Send
Troops.
8. Reuters: Pro-Moscow protesters seize arms, declare republic; Kiev
fears invasion.
9. www.rt.com: Donetsk activists proclaim region’s independence from
Ukraine.
10. Interfax: Stability in Ukraine is impossible without heeding
Russian-speaking people’s opinion – Pushkov.
11. Kyiv Post: Turchynov: We will act decisively against terrorists.
12. Interfax: Ukrainian parliament to increase liability for
separatism, ban parties engaging in it – Turchynov.
13. RIA Novosti: OPINION: Violent Crackdown on Ukrainian Protesters
Would End in Civil War.
14. Wall Street Journal: Ukrainian Leaders Slam Russia for Attempt to
‘Tear Country Apart.’ East Ukraine Rocked by Protests, While Ukrainian
Official Is Killed in Crimea.
15. Reuters: No significant change in Russian troop positions near
Ukraine: NATO.
16. Interfax: Russian peacekeepers can’t be sent to eastern Ukraine
without UN approval – Russian senator.
17. www.rt.com: Ukraine nationalists attempt storm on Kiev Supreme
Court.
18. Politcom.ru: Oleg Gorbunov, Attempting To Put The Right-Radical
Genie Back in The Bottle.
19. The Voice of Russia: Berkut police did not use firearms against
Maidan protesters- Ukrainian ex Interior Minister
20. www.rt.com: Moody’s downgrades Ukraine to ‘default imminent’
21. Reuters: Gazprom says no payments from Ukraine as Monday deadline
looms.
22. Interfax : Russia’s Gazprom head says Ukraine gas debt can’t go on
forever.
23. RIA Novosti: US Can’t Replace Russian Gas in Ukraine – Gazprom.
24. Moscow Times: Simon Saradzhyan, A Victory for Russia’s Special
Forces.
25. Moscow Times: Ingrid Burke, Crimea Proving to Be a War Fought With
International Law.
26. Stephen Shenfield, Ukraine and Sergei Roy.
27. Experienced Western journalist: Sergei Roy’s piece.
28. Vedomosti editorial: What kind of federalism is important to the
Kremlin? The possibilities enshrined in federalism for the accession
of new territories are important and necessary to Moscow.
29. Washington Post: Kiev sees Russian federalization plans as attempt
to destroy Ukraine.
30. Ira Straus: Russia’s confederal-disintegration, not federal,
proposal for Ukraine.
31. New York Times: Tending Their Wounds, Vowing to Fight On. (re
Maidan victims)
32. The National Interest: Paul Pillar, NATO Expansion and the Road to
Simferopol.
33. New York Times: Robert Service, Putin’s Czarist Folly.
34. www.rt.com: Crimea ‘chill’ in Russian-Western relations will be
short-lived – Russia’s UN envoy.
35. RIA Novosti: EU Could Lose 1 Trillion Euros From Further Sanctions
Against Moscow – Russian Official.
36. The National Interest: Riccardo Alcaro, The Case for Gradualism
Against Russia.
37. ITAR-TASS: Those who want to return to Cold War times take upper
hand in NATO – Russian envoy.
38. www.rt.com: Gazprom Neft CEO says ditch dollar, look east if
sanctions escalate.
39. Russia Direct: Here’s why the WTO isn’t going to help Russia avoid
sanctions. RD Exclusive: With the West seeking to decrease its
dependence on Russia’s oil and gas and looming economic and trade
sanctions on Russia’s energy exports to Europe, is there anything the
WTO can do to help?
40. RIA Novosti: Russia Won’t Let NGOs Be Used for Destructive Ends as
in Ukraine – Putin.
41. USAToday.com: Anna Arutunyan, After Ukraine, Russians brace for
repressions.
42. www.rt.com: Communist candidate tops mayoral poll in Siberia’s
biggest city.
43. Reuters: After Crimea, West’s spies, armies to raise Russia focus.
44. Carnegie Moscow Center: Dmitri Trenin, Transnistria: A Gathering
Storm.
45. Wall Street Journal: Svante Cornell, Checking Putin’s Eurasian
Ambitions. Georgia and Azerbaijan can deny Moscow access to the
Caspian Sea and Central Asia. But they need U.S. support.
46. The Guardian: Russian ambassadors: ‘next we’ll take Catalonia,
Venice, Scotland and Alaska’
47. The Japan Times: Pankaj Mishra, Don’t let Cold War warriors reboot
their dated thinking.
48. Moscow Times: Putin’s Call-In Show Set for April 17, Reports Say.
49. ITAR-TASS: Western business circles not interested in escalating
tension with Russia – view.
50. Moscow Times: German Companies Remain Supportive of South Stream
Gas Pipe.
51. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Anatole Klyosov: The original Soviet
internet geek. This year marks 20 years since the internet first
appeared in Russia. The first Soviet internet user, the well-known
Soviet-American scientist Anatole A. Klyosov, speaks about the
internet in the USSR, espionage and the surreal logic of history in an
exclusive interview with RBTH.
52. Russia Direct: Why #SaveFulbright matters for anyone following
Russia. On April 4, Congress begins deliberations on a $30 million
funding cut for the Fulbright Program. Is this just a case of budget
austerity – or a sign that the U.S. is re-thinking soft power around
the world?
53. Moscow Times: What the Papers Say, April 7, 2014.

Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia

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