RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#100 contents with links :: Sunday 4 May 2014
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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#100 :: 4 May 2014
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1. Reuters: Ukraine accuses Russia of engineering Odessa riots that killed over 40.
2. 5 Kanal TV (Kyiv): Ukrainian presidential frontrunner hails progress of antiterrorist operation.
3. Kyiv Post: Presidential Administration: Russia’s Federal Security Service armed Odessa separatists
8,. www.rt.com: Russia’s warnings of inter-ethnic violence in Ukraine come to fruition.
4. www.rt.com: Radicals shooting at people in Odessa’s burning building caught on tape.
5. www.rt.com: Ukrainian army attacks eastern cities of Mariupol, Konstantinovka.
6. www.rt.com: Avoiding facts? MSM uncertain who is behind deadly Odessa blaze.
7. www.rt.com: ‘Why do they hate us so much?’ Southeast Ukraine seeks to understand new regime.
8. www.rt.com: Russia’s warnings of inter-ethnic violence in Ukraine come to fruition.
9. New York Times: Behind the Masks in Ukraine, Many Faces of Rebellion.
10. Wall Street Journal: Ukraine Violence Spreads as Government’s Grip on East Loosens Further.
11. The Independent (UK): Ukraine crisis: ‘This is not some kind of a short-lived uprising. It is a war.’ So said one Kiev ‘anti-terrorist’ leader on a day when clashes left many dead. The only bright spot was the release of the OSCE hostages
12. Interfax: Russia cannot persuade militiamen to disarm – Peskov.
13. Interfax: Putin updated on events in east Ukraine 24 hours a day – Peskov.
14. Interfax: Putin spokesman slams West, says partly responsible for bloodshed in Ukraine.
15. RIA Novosti: Putin’s envoy denies Russia coordinates Ukrainian separatists’ actions. (Vladimir Lukin)
16. http://reconsideringrussia.org: Pietro Shakarian, The 2 May Odessa Massacre and Its Significance on the Ukraine Crisis.
17. The Vineyard of the Saker: Ukraine SITREP update – May 3nd, 16:20 UTC/Zulu: “the mysterious Russian soul?”
18. The Vineyard of the Saker: A small clarification to the previous SITREP.
19. Interfax: OSCE officers held in Slovyansk were treated well – head of Ukrainian group of OSCE military mission.
20. www.opendemocracy.net: By Andrew Wilson and Oleksandr Andreyev, A new (failing) state or more of the same? Ukraine is a state in political turmoil. But how much of this is the fault of separatists in the east and how much comes from ‘business-as-usual’ corruption from the Kyiv government?
21. The New Republic: Linda Kinstler, Ukraine’s Election Is Irrelevant. The president will change, but the parliament won’t-and that’s the problem.
22. www.forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Vladimir Putin’s Approval Is At A More Than Four Year High.
23. Wall Street Journal: Hans-Werner Sinn, Why We Should Give Putin a Chance. Russia’s annexation of Crimea violated international law, but the West triggered the crisis in Ukraine.
24. Antiwar.com: Richard Morchoe, Deja Russia All Over Again. (re Suzanne Massie)
25. http://geostrategicforecasting.net: Gordon Hahn, Great Power Hubris and the Ukrainian Civil War.
26. https://www.facebook.com/gordon.hahn1
27. ITAR-TASS: Russian minister: Ukraine has no right to revise gas price unilaterally.
28. Reuters: Side deals with Moscow thwart drive to wean Europe off Russian gas.
29. Russia Direct: Anna Kireeva, How Ukrainian crisis will facilitate Russia’s Asian Pivot. The crisis in Ukraine could force Russia’s hand in expanding its trade and economic relationships with the nations of East Asia. That could be good news for Russia’s Far East.
30. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Yuri Simonyan, South Caucasus states shun Moscow’s influence. When it comes to its relations with former Soviet republics in the Caucasus, Moscow has a delicate balancing act to play.
31. http://consortiumnews.com: Robert Parry, Will Ukraine Be NYT’s Waterloo?
32. www.truth-out.org: Noam Chomsky, Red Lines in Ukraine and Elsewhere.
33. http://charter97.org: Aleksander Kwasniewski: After Ukraine Putin will seize Belarus, Kazakhstan and Latvia.
34. Wall Street Journal editorial: Ukraine Needs U.S. Military Aid. Obama offers Spam while Putin sends in special forces.
35. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Putin as a Fascist Leader Bears Total Responsibility for Crisis in Ukraine, Commentator Says. (Dmitry Litvin)
36. Time.com: Former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Warns of War in Ukraine. (Michael McFaul)
37. New York Post: Ralph Peters, Putin’s plan to reclaim the old Russian empire.
