RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-59 :: Friday, 25 March 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#59
Friday, 25 March 2016

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RUSSIA

1. Kremlin.ru: Plenary session of the RSPP congress.
2. Moscow Times: Natalya Zubarevich, Russian Economic Crisis Risks Stagnation, Degradation.
3. US-Russia Business Council: Ulyukayev Sees Improvements in Investment, Capital Outflow.
4. Intellinews.com: Russian state procurement makes up quarter of economy.
5. Russia Insider: Alexander Merouris, How Russia’s Economy Is Being Strangled by Its Central Bankers. Despite rapid fall in inflation the Central Bank is keeping interest rates at an unreasonably high 11%.
6. Wall Street Journal: Investors May Have Little Choice But to Buy Russia’s Bonds.
7. www.rt.com: Foreign investors welcome in Russia – PM Medvedev.
8. Carnegie Moscow Center: Oleg Buklemishev, Magna Carta, Not Money: Putin’s Privatizations.
9. Interfax: Russia’s top investigator says Khodorkovsky acquired Yukos shares illegally.
10. Moscow Times: Grounded: Economic Crisis Hobbles Russian Space Program.
11. Reuters: Putin endorses Chechnya leader, but says must respect Russian laws.
12. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Briefing by Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova, Moscow, March 24, 2016. (excerpt re Comments by US media on Russia’s reaction to Belgium terror attacks”)
13. www.rt.com: New Syrian constitution by August: Russia, US push for political solutions at Moscow talks.
14. Wall Street Journal: U.S., Russia Map Out Peace Strategy for Syria. The two countries remain divided over the future of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
15. Kremlin.ru: Meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry.
16. TASS: Vast majority of Russians support decision to withdraw troops from Syria – pollster.
17. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Russian General Staff chief criticizes US approach to Syria ceasefire agreement.
18. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Gazeta.ru: Commander of Russia’s Syrian operation emerges from the shadows. The identity of the man in charge of Russia’s military campaign in Syria has now been revealed after he gave an interview to a leading Russian newspaper after the conclusion of Russia’s operations in the Arab republic.
19. http://readrussia.com: Mark Adomanis, Russia’s (non?) exit from Syria.
20. Russia Direct: Lena Surzhko-Harned, Why a Donald Trump presidency could be dangerous for Russia.
21. The Guardian: Fatou Bensouda, The Russia-Georgia war: why the ICC is launching war crimes probe.
22. Vedomosti: Dmitry Travin, Is our elite servile?
23. www.rt.com: Sympathy for Stalin among Russians still high, poll shows.
24. Bloomberg: Josh Rogin, How Russia Is ‘Weaponizing’ Migration to Destabilize Europe.

UKRAINE

25. The Guardian: Ukraine risks polio spreading as it delays licensing new vaccine.
26. European Politics and Society: Ivan Katchanovski, The Separatist War in Donbas: A Violent Break-up of Ukraine?
27. European Politics and Society: Volodymyr Ishchenko, Far right participation in the Ukrainian Maidan protests: an attempt of systematic estimation.
28. European Politics and Society: Paul Robinson, Russia’s role in the war in Donbass, and the threat to European security.
29. Reuters: Ukrainian Lawyer of Captured Russian Soldiers Found Dead.
30. www.rt.com: Lawyer of Russian fighter kidnapped, kept compliant with bomb bracelet, killed in Ukraine.
31. Interfax-Ukraine: Court releases suspect of journalist Buzyna murder from house arrest.
32. Kyiv Post: Homophobia’s Victims Get Beaten, Blamed.
33. The Times of Israel: ‘Kill the Jews’ painted on Ukrainian synagogue.In separate incident, wreath laid by Justice Minister Ayel et Shaked for Holocaust victims in Kiev is torched.
34. Forbes.com: Doug Bandow, Busted Fantasies In Kiev: America And Europe Won’t Save Ukrainian Maiden In Distress.
35. Russia Insider: Donetsk Blog Mar 25: Residential Areas Under Fire – Mercenaries Legalized – Kiev’s Plan to Seize Donbass.
36. Wall Street Journal: Ukraine’s Poroshenko Trying to Push Out Prime Minister Yatsenyuk. President wants a new government after pro-Western coalition crumbles as charges fly.
37. Kyiv Post: Poroshenko backs loyalist Groysman as prime minister.
38. Reuters: Ukraine’s parliament speaker frontrunner to replace PM Yatseniuk.
39. Kyiv Post editorial: Business as usual.
40. www.rt.com: Foreigners in Ukrainian leadership are ‘humiliation’ – ex-Georgian prez turned Ukrainian governor.
41. Interfax-Ukraine: Poroshenko to pay working visit to United States March 30 – Apr 2.
42. Awara: Jon Hellevig, The Hidden Story of Crimea’s Economic Success.
43. www.opendemocracy.net: Ksenia Turkova, Cultural cooperation in a time of war: the view from Kyiv. How the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has changed the face of cultural exchange.
44. TASS: Kremlin: Savchenko’s swap theoretically possible.

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