RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#140 contents with links :: Monday 23 June 2014

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Monday – JRL 2014-#140 :: 23 June 2014

1. Moscow Times/Reuters: Who Will Make It? World Cup Scenarios Before Group Finals.
2. BBC: UK journalist caught up in Russia-Ukraine media battle. (re Mark Franchetti)
3. Reuters: In parts of east Ukraine, a daily struggle to survive.
4. Interfax: Miners call for cessation of military conflict in Donbas.
5. Reuters: Fighting strains Ukraine ceasefire, Putin urges dialogue.
6. Wall Street Journal: Putin Calls for Ukraine to Hold Unconditional Talks With Rebels.
7. Kremlin.ru: On the plan for peaceful settlement in Ukraine.
8. Kremlin.ru: Response to a journalist’s question about the peace plan in Ukraine.
9. ITAR-TASS: Upper house speaker welcomes Ukraine president’s plans for peaceful settlement.
10. The Voice of Russia: Putin tells about artillery shelling in Ukraine.
11. ITAR-TASS: Russian TV shows footage exposing Ukraine’s artillery strikes in the Lugansk region.
12. Interfax: Lavrov favors direct dialogue as way to resolve Ukrainian crisis.
13. http://www.president.gov.ua: Address of President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
14. RIA Novosti: Poroshenko’s Plan B Stipulates Continuation of Military Action – Presidential Aide.
15. www.rt.com: Poroshenko warns of ‘detailed Plan B’ if Ukraine ceasefire fails
16. Interfax: Kyiv seeks intl support for peace efforts in eastern Ukraine – statement.
17. ITAR-TASS: Russian experts doubt peaceful goals of Ukraine president’s plan.
18. Wall Street Journal: Russia Yet to Receive Ukraine Eurobond Payment. Kiev Has the Option of a Grace Period.
19. RIA Novosti: Russia-EU Gas Transit Through Ukraine Compliant With Contract – Gazprom.
20. Interfax: Three former Ukrainian presidents sign open letter to Putin calling for talks.
21. Financial Times: Vladimir Putin balances patriotism with politics in Ukraine.
22. New York Times: Putin Attempts to Straddle a Divide He Helped to Pry Open in Ukraine.
23. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Support for Putin’s Policies on Ukraine Broad but Not Deep, Gudkov Says.
24. www.rt.com: Kiev nationalists clash with police outside Orthodox monastery (PHOTOS, VIDEO).
25. New York Times: Ukrainian Church Faces Obscure Pro-Russia Revolt in Its Own Ranks.
26. BBC: Ukraine: Common history pulls in aid from west Russia.
27. Washington Post: Ukrainian army fights rebels and neglect.
28. The New Republic: Oliver Carroll, Why Ukraine’s Separatist Movement Failed in Kharkiv. But Now, Recovered From Gunshot Wounds, Mayor Gennady Kernes is Back in Town.
29. Research Centre for Energy Management: A Russo-Ukrainian gas war III?
30. Moscow Times: Victor Davidoff, Putin Has Learned Afghanistan’s Lesson.
31. The Voice of Russia: Novorossiya won’t go back to being part of Ukraine – expert.
32. Kyiv Post: Serhiy Kvit, Putin’s Russia is modern-day ‘evil empire’
33. Moscow Times/Reuters: Lithuanian President Likens Putin to Stalin and Hitler.
34. Moscow Times: Russia Reverses Birth Decline – but for How Long?
35. Business New Europe: Ben Aris, Happy in Yakutia and Russia.
36. Moscow Times: Russians Unfazed by Nudists But Outraged by Transsexuals, Poll Shows.
37. Moscow Times: Russian Banks to Help U.S. Tax Service After New FATCA Law Passed.
38. http://techcrunch.com: Russia’s Skolkovo Project Back On Track.
39. ITAR-TASS: Putin urges to invite more actively leading foreign scientists to teach in Russia.
40. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Russia’s Workforce Is Shrinking
41. RFE.RL: Russian Expats Wrestle With Dual-Citizenship Dilemma.
42. Moscow Times: John Freedman, Few Russian Artists Bother to Fight Creeping Trend of Censorship.
43. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Russia Further from Superpower Status than When Putin Came to Power.
44. Interfax: Russia warns of new wave of collapse of states in Middle East.
45. Al Arabiya News: Theodore Karasik, Moscow to play negotiator, Riyadh holds the keys.
46. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Sorry Garry Kasparov, You Can’t Blame Iraq On Vladimir Putin.
47. Carnegie Moscow Center: Dmitri Trenin, Clinton, Russia, and U.S. Foreign Policy.
48. https://russiamil.wordpress.com: Dmitry Gorenburg, Sergei Ryabkov hopes for continued cooperation.
49. History News Network: Walter Moss, This Is What a New US-Russia Relationship Could Look Like.
50. The New York Times: The Cold War Brews Anew in Prime Time. On ‘The Americans’ and Other Shows, Russian Spies Invade.