RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#101 contents with links :: Monday 5 May 2014
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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#101 :: 5 May 2014
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1. AFP: CIA, FBI agents ‘advising Ukraine government’: report.
2. USNews.com: NATO Countries Planning Comms Mission in Ukraine. Russia’s extreme propaganda, ‘haplessness’ of Ukrainian military requires strategic fix.
3. www.digitaljournal.com: USAID to spend $1.5 million more on Ukraine election.
4. Reuters: Ukraine moving police special forces to control Odessa.
5. RIA Novosti: REVIEW: Deadly Clashes Leave Dozens Killed, Hundreds Injured in Southeastern Ukraine.
6. Reuters: Russia sees push for Ukraine “dialogue” with rebels soon.
7. ITAR-TASS: Point of no return in Russia-West relations not yet passed – Russian expert. (Sergei Rogov)
8. Carnegie Moscow Center: Dmitri Trenin, Ukraine Burning.
9. Interfax-Ukraine: Lukin: Ukrainian sides need to negotiate common solutions.
10. Valdai Discussion Club: A Real Civil War Could Start in Ukraine After the Presidential Election. (Dmitry Suslov)
11. The Independent (UK) editorial: As Ukraine’s agony intensifies, the temptation to walk away from an insoluble-looking conflict must be resisted. Sanctions and shrill denunciations of Putin are no substitute for proactive policy.
12. History News Network: Walter Moss, Are We Starting Another Cold War over Russian Actions in Ukraine?
13. Russia Direct: Odessa incident: The media battle for Eastern Ukraine. How did global media respond to the tragic events in Eastern Ukraine and Odessa this weekend that killed more than 40 people?
14. www.rt.com: Provocation gone wrong: Murky forces instigating Odessa violence?
15. Daily Mail (UK): Putin wants to ‘wipe Ukraine off the map’, says Kiev: Country’s interim prime minister blames Moscow’s secret service for fire that killed dozens.
16. Voices of Ukraine: Dmitry Tymchuk: Regarding the progress of the ATO-May 4, 2014.
17. Kyiv Post: Interior Ministry: Four Ukrainian soldiers killed, 30 wounded in anti-terrorist operation in Sloviansk (LIVE UPDATES).
18. Kyiv Post: Tymoshenko: Special brigades in southeastern Ukraine will likely include military with combat experience.
19. www.euronews.com: Ukraine: Turchynov: institutional support for Moscow ‘colossal problem’
20. Interfax: Ukrainian troops try to prevent civilian casualties eastern Ukraine – Avakov.
21. Wall Street Journal: Pro-Ukraine Group Steps In to Defend City. Clashes in Odessa Prompt Civilians, Leery of Pro-Russia Advances Elsewhere in Country, to Join Grass-Roots Movement.
22. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Interfax: Russia, EU, Ukraine set 4-week deadline to prevent new gas transit crisis.
23. New York Times: Kiev Struggles to Break Russia’s Grip on Gas Flow.
24. Wall Street Journal: Ukraine Crisis: Fear of Wider Pain Tempers Sanctions. Threat to Global Growth Shows Why West Is Moving Gingerly Against Russia’s Putin.
25. ITAR-TASS: OSCE observers detained in Sloviansk linked to Germany’s intelligence service – media.
26. www.nationaljournal.com: NATO Commander Says Russia Doesn’t Need to Invade to Take Over Eastern Ukraine.
27. The Voice of Russia: Washington’s chief task is to separate Russia and Ukraine – experts.
28. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Ukrainian Events a Delayed Reaction to USSR’s Peaceful Disintegration in 1991, ‘Vedomosti’ Says.
29. http://links.org.au: Boris Kagarlitsky, Fate of Donetsk is being decided in Kharkov.
30. Consortium News: Robert Parry, Twisting Putin’s Words on Ukraine.
31. www.antiwar.com: Justin Raimondo, Odessa: Ukraine’s Waco.
32. Valdai Discussion Club/The American Review: Anatol Lieven, The Spectre of Wolfowitz.
33. Interfax: Russia files suit in WTO against EU Third Energy Package.
34. Financial Times: Viv Groskop, Reasserting Russia’s literary status. Can the new generation of writers revive a great tradition?
35. Moscow Times: John Freedman, Brush Up Your Shakespeare to Understand Today’s Russia.
36. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Teaching Moscow’s schoolchildren the value of kindness.
37. Moscow Times: What the Papers Say, May 5, 2014.
