RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#120 contents with links :: Thursday 29 May 2014
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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#120 :: 29 May 2014
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1. Valdai Discussion Club/Gazeta.ru: Fyodor Lukyanov, Ukraine After the Presidential Election: Next Stop, Dayton.
2. Wall Street Journal: Ukraine to Sign Economic Pact With EU Next Month.
3. Interfax: Poroshenko wins with 54.7% of vote – Turchynov.
4. ITAR-TASS: Ukraine’s new president may be sworn into office on June 2-3 – lawmaker.
5. Reuters: Rebels down Ukraine helicopters, Putin denounces city assault.
6. Kyiv Post: Ukraine News One: Russian insurgents use hospital patients as human shields in Sloviansk.
7. www.rt.com: 80 Ukrainian soldiers surrender to self-defense forces in Lugansk.
8. Interfax: Kremlin reaffirms its “respect” for outcome of Ukraine election.
9. ITAR-TASS: Lavrov insists world community should facilitate soonest stabilization in Ukraine.
10. Interfax: Yanukovych on new authorities in Kyiv: bloody fireworks bad start for presidency.
11. Macro-Advisory: Chris Weafer, UKRAINE: ITS ONLY THE END OF THE FIRST PERIOD. (excerpt)
12. Reuters: Gas price row talks set for Friday as Ukraine cut-off deadline looms.
13. Business New Europe: EU proposed to repay to Gazprom half of Ukraine’s debt for April-May gas supplies as payment deadline nears.
14. Business New Europe: Tim Ash, Gazprom’s Miller says Ukraine will owe $5.2b by June 7.
15. ITAR-TASS: WikiLeaks show turnaround in US attitude to ‘discredited’ Poroshenko.
16. Segodnya (Kyiv): President’s first steps: Russia, Donbass and business.
17. Wall Street Journal: Mikheil Saakashvili, The Tasks Ahead for Ukraine’s New President.
18. The Peterson Institute for International Economics: Anders Aslund, Dissolve the Ukrainian Parliament!
19. The Guardian: Miners hold pro-Russia rally in Donetsk. Around 300 coalminers march through city centre in show of support for self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic.
20. Moscow Times: Chechens in Ukraine Capture Public Interest.
21. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Leonid Radzikhovskiy: A way out.
22. Moscow Times: Svitlana Zalishchuk, Kiev Must Launch Reforms.
23. Le Monde diplomatique: Avedis Hadjian, Who are the separatists and what do they want? Back in the USSR. It has looked like civil war in Ukraine, yet most Ukrainians don’t want any such thing, as shown by the 25 May election results. And pro-Russian separatists in the east mostly want to return to their old Soviet life.
24. The National Interest: Sean Gillen, Putinology 101: The Kremlin’s Real Strategic Goal in Ukraine. It’s not what you think.
25. www.rt.com: Alexander Yakovenko, Who undermines the Budapest Memorandum on Ukraine?
26. Reuters: Kremlin adviser steps up war of words with US over Ukraine. (Sergei Glazyev)
27. The National Interest: Dmitri Trenin, Get Ready World: The U.S.-Russian Rivalry Is Back. And it could get ugly.
28. History News Network: Walter Moss, What’s Next? The Ukrainian Crisis 2.0.
29. The Voice of Russia: Strong, non-aligned federalist Ukraine is best outcome for everyone – journalist. (Pepe Escobar)
30. Moscow Times/Vedomosti: Konstantin Sonin, Gas Deal Profit Depends On Costs of Corruption.
31. Russia Direct: What U.S. experts think on Putin’s ‘New Russia’ and Russia-China deal. The leading U.S think tanks on Russia and Eurasia have shifted their focus from Crimea to three recurring themes: Putin’s “new Russia,” the massive Russia-China energy deal, and the May 25 elections in Ukraine.
32. Dagens Naeringsliv (Norway): Roman Vakulchuk and Indra Overland, Russia’s Asian pivot?
33. Moscow Times/Vedomosti: Konstantin Simonov, Russia Won’t Replace the West With China.
34. http://geostrategicforecasting.net: Gordon Hahn, The Age of Communalism, the Post-Soviet Nationalist Wars, and Dueling Nationalisms in Ukraine.
35. Moscow Times: Fewer Russians Fear Growing Old, Poll Shows.
36. RIA Novosti: Public Approval for Putin, Medvedev Continues to Grow – Survey.
37. www.rt.com: Most Russians want their country to dominate the globe – poll.
38. Moscow Times: Russians Are World’s 2nd Highest Spenders on Alcohol.
39. RIA Novosti: Medvedev Warns Strained Relations Could Have Economic Impact.
40. Business Insider: Russia’s Economy May Have Avoided The Worst Fallout From Ukraine.
41. Russia Beyond the Headlines: St. Petersburg forum attracts foreign investors despite boycott.
42. ITAR-TASS: Russia prepares to tighten grip on Internet.
43. Interfax: Russian upper house approves tougher “foreign agent” NGO law.
44. www.rt.com: Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan sign ‘epoch’ Eurasian Economic Union.
45. New York Times: Putin Signs Economic Alliance With Kazakhstan and Belarus.
46. Carnegie Moscow Center: Alexei Arbatov, The Ukrainian Crisis and Iranian Negotiations.
47. Moscow Times: Moscow Steps In as Arbiter in Abkhaz Conflict.
48. RIA Novosti: OPINION: Ukrainian Crisis ‘Emboldened Opposition’ in Abkhazia. (Thomas de Waal)
49. New York Times Letter: A ‘good Hitler’ wasn’t possible. (Andranik Migranyan)
50. Voice of America: Americans in Moscow Feel Chill in US-Russia Relations.
51. Moscow Times: Moscow Places Near Bottom in TripAdvisor Cities Survey.
52. Slate.com: Harrison Stark, The USSR Was a Soccer Powerhouse. Why Isn’t Russia?
53. The Guardian: Anastasiia Fedorova, Russia’s suburbs lack charm … which may be why they’re creative hotspots. How exactly did the faceless tower block become the inspiration for contemporary Russian visual culture?
