RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#133 contents with links :: Monday 16 June 2014
[check back for updates, including more links; links also posted to facebook and twitter]
Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#133 :: 16 June 2014
E-Mail: davidjohnson@starpower.net
A project of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs: www.ieres.org
JRL homepage: russialist.org
JRL on Facebook: facebook.com/russialist
JRL on Twitter: twitter.com/JohnsonRussiaLi
Support JRL: russialist.org/funding.php
1. Embassy of Ukraine in the United States of America: Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yatsenyuk: We will commemorate the heroes by cleaning our land from the evil.
2. Inforesist: Convoys of military vehicles and equipment are moving towards Ukraine.
3. http://burkonews.info: ENEMY AT THE GATES. RUSSIA PREPARING FULL-SCALE INVASION.
4. Inforesist: “Bes” ordered to chain hostages to the roofs to avoid airstrikes.
5. Inforesist: Donetsk terrorists tried to take children from an orphanage to use as a human shield at checkpoints.
6. http://burkonews.info: 14 Years Old Wounded Boy From Snezhnoe Told How DPR Terrorists Shot Down His Family.
7. Euromaidan PR: Dmytro Tymchuk, The Third Gas War and Kolomoyskiy’s Wall.
8. Reuters: In Ukraine, a day of mourning shows nation divided.
9. Interfax: Lavrov accuses Ukrainian interior minister of connivance with extremists.
10. Interfax: Lavrov: attack on Kyiv embassy led by battalion set up by Kolomoisky.
11. RIA Novosti: Lavrov Urges Intl Community to Push Ukrainian Crisis to Political Course.
12. Interfax-Ukraine: Poroshenko to submit proposals on constitutional reform to Rada this week.
13. Reuters: Russia’s Gazprom reduces gas to Ukraine after deadline passes.
14. ITAR-TASS: Energy minister: Russia was ready to provide financial aid to Ukraine within gas talks.
15. RIA Novosti: Europe Ready to Consider Opal Pipeline For Future Gas Supplies – Gazprom.
16. The Voice of Russia: Kiev pumps astronomical volumes of gas into underground storages without paying – Gazprom CEO.
17. Business New Europe: Russia cuts Ukrainian gas supplies.
18. Interfax: Conditions proposed to Ukraine on gas shipments better than those in place under Yanukovych – Miller.
19. Interfax: Russia accuses West of “protecting” Ukraine at gas talks.
20. www.rt.com: Ukraine’s stance in gas talks with Russia is ‘blackmail’ – Gazprom CEO.
21. Washington Post: Brenda Shaffer, Stopping Russia from cornering Europe’s energy market.
22. Reuters: Ukraine fighting threatens water supply to four million: OSCE.
23. Interfax: Over 60,000 Ukrainians staying in Russia’s Rostov Region – local official.
24. Kyiv Post: Boris Danik, No reason for Ukraine to bleed in Donbas.
25. The Sunday Times (UK): Armed and deluded: the PR guru tearing Ukraine apart. (Alexander Borodai)
26. www.rt.com: ‘Ukrainian officials show ‘adolescent foolishness’, not diplomacy.’ (Michael Carley)
27. www.rt.com: Russia now enemy, so we’ll help Ukraine build up military – NATO chief.
28. Wall Street Journal editorial: Meanwhile, Back in Ukraine. Tanks mysteriously roll in from Russia.
29. Valdai Discussion Club: Alexei Fenenko, Ukraine: Neutrality or NATO?
30. Oriental Review: Ukraine: Is There a Chance for De-escalation?
31. The Voice of Russia: Dmitry Linnik, Conflict in Ukraine: If it talks like a Nazi
32. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, THE BIG CHEESE WHOSE HOLES ARE SHOWING – SWISS PRESIDENT DIDIER BURKHALTER TAKES THE NEUTRALITY TEST IN UKRAINE, AND FAILS.
33. www.rt.com: Ukraine turmoil turns Russians off nationalism – survey.
34. Carnegie Moscow Center: Dmitri Trenin, The Resurgent, the Assertive, and the Uncertain: Power Shift in Eurasia.
35. Valdai Discussion Club: Alexander Lukin, Chauvinism or Chaos? A Vicious Choice for Russia.
36. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Putin’s War in Ukraine Marks Rebirth of Stalinism in Russia, Chubais Says. (Igor Chubais)
37. Reuters: Disciplined Russia to keep it tight against Korea. (soccer)
38. RFE/RL: Russia To Test Migrant Workers On Country’s History.
39. Interfax: NASA wishes to carry on ISS cooperation after 2020 – newspaper.
40. Washington Post: Adam Taylor, Russia on Iraq: ‘We told you so’
41. Russia Beyond the Headlines: The Russian novel returns: Solovki prison, the defense industry, and an agronomist called Gogol.
42. Wall Street Journal Europe book review: Will Nicoll, On the Road With the Ghosts of the Gulag. Kolyma’s people are not only haunted. They are also contrary, devil-may-care and friendly.
43. National Geographic: Joshua Yaffa, Siberian Medical Train. Train for the Forgotten. For Siberia’s isolated villagers, the doctor is in the railway car.
44. www.opendemocracy.net: Thomas de Waal, Nagorno-Karabakh: Crimea’s doppelganger. Crimea and Nagorno-Karabakh, two regions with similar histories, took very different paths after the Soviet Union broke up; until now.
45. History News Network: Walter Moss, Our Stale, Unimaginative, and Wrong-Headed Approach to Russia Has Finally Caught Up with Us.
