RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#108 contents with links :: Thursday 15 May 2014
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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#108 :: 15 May 2014
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1. AP: Senator Ted Cruz Is Headed To Ukraine.
2. AP: US Envoy: Stop ‘Terror’ in Eastern Ukraine. (Nuland)
3. Reuters: Polish PM says NATO needs larger presence in eastern Europe.
4. Interfax: Interim president speaks about Ukrainian military’s successes in Slavyansk, Kramatorsk.
5. Interfax: Two-thirds of Ukrainians sees Russia as friend – poll.
6. New York Times: Talks on Ukraine Crisis Open in Kiev Without Representation for Separatists.
7. Interfax: All-Ukraine dialogue needed to “legitimize” election – Russian senator.
8. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Dmitry Ofitserov-Belsky, Moscow’s offer to Kiev is a practical scenario for resolving the crisis.
9. Bloomberg: Ukraine Pushes On With Offensive as Russia Warns on Vote.
10. Bloomberg: Russia Can Do Business With Elected Ukraine Leader, Lavrov Says.
11. ITAR-TASS: Russia ready to resume gas price talks with Ukraine after it pays part of debt.
12. RIA Novosti: Moscow Says Ukraine Unable to Pay for Gas Supplies.
13. Moscow Times: Ukraine Election the ‘Lesser of Two Evils.’ (Sergei Naryshkin)
14. Business New Europe: Crisis Group, Ukraine: Running out of Time.
15. ITAR-TASS: Yatsenyuk calls for constitutional amendments and decentralization of power in Ukraine.
16. Kyiv Post: Akhmetov calls for constitutional reform, decentralization.
17. Kyiv Post: Volunteer Donbass Battalion takes up arms to defend Ukraine, defeat separatists.
18. The Independent (UK): Ukraine crisis: Kidnappings abound as the Donbass falls further into anarchy.
19. Euromaidan PR: A 12-year-old boy, called the Child of Maidan, exchanged his childhood for war.
20. Euromaidan PR: How to save the Donbas.
21. John Helmer: MEET THE UKRO-MAOISTS – THE LITTLE BLUE AND YELLOW BOOK OF UKRAINIAN OLIGARCH SAYINGS ON THE UKRAINE CONFLICT.
22. Politico.com: Eugene Rumer and Andrew Weiss, The Unraveling of Ukraine. Yes, it’s happening. Is there anything Obama can do about it?
23. Valdai Discussion Club: Mikhail Delyagin, Diplomatic and Economic Isolation of Russia is Impossible.
24. Pando Daily: Mark Ames, Sorry America, the Ukraine isn’t all about you.
25. ITAR-TASS: Russian official promises Moscow’s painful response if West goes on with sanctions.
26. Moscow Times: Sergei Markov, Europeans Turning Against U.S. and Toward Russia.
27. www.rt.com: Total free fall: Ukraine economy to plunge 7% in 2014, no growth in 2015.
28. USAToday.com: U.S. companies get hurt by sanctions targeting Russia.
29. Financial Times: Energy sanctions aim to hurt Russia more than the west.
30. Oilprice.com: Gazprom Sees Little Risk Of Disruption To European Energy Supply.
31. Reuters: Resist or cooperate? Crimean Tatars split over Russian rule.
32. Moscow Times: Crimean Chemical Plants Threatened by Ukraine’s Water War With Russia.
33. Voice of America: Ukraine Crisis Stirs Fears of New Nuclear Arms Race.
34. Bretton Woods Research: Putin’s Calculus.
35. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Moscow Conducting ‘War of a New Type’ Against Ukraine, Kyiv Says.
36. Reuters: Elusive Muscovite with three names takes control of Ukraine rebels.
37. Opednews.com: George Eliason, Ukraine What the Referendum Means in South-east.
38. Sic Semper Tyrannis: FB Ali, The West and Ukraine − and the wars within.
39. Asia Times: Pepe Escobar, Ukraine: The waiting game.
40. McClatchy newspapers: Americans prowling in Ukraine? Russia might be winning propaganda war.
41. RIA Novosti: Washington Denies Involvement of US Mercenaries in Ukraine.
42. The Vineyard of the Saker: A look in the long distance: who will have to pay for “Ukraine v2”?
43. Interfax: Moscow press review for May 15, 2014.
44. Moscow Times: Russians Still Among Heaviest Alcohol Drinkers Worldwide, Report Says.
45. Moscow Times: Russian Space Program Gets $52Bln Boost.
46. Moscow Times: Konstantin Sonin, The Limits of Change.
47. Levada.ru: Most Russians support censorship in internet – poll.
48. Financial Times: Russia tussle risks exposing WTO weakness.
49. ITAR-TASS: Russia to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 75% of 1990 level by 2020 – Dvorkovich.
50. Interfax: Afghan heroin has “killed” at least 500,000 Russians since 2000 – drug watchdog head.
51. www.opendemocracy.net: Kristina Silvan, The seductive power of Seliger.
52. International Business Times: Forget Sanctions Over Ukraine: Russia Scores Massive Gas Pipeline Deal With China.
53. www.rt.com: When energy starved India meets oil rich Russia.
