RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#151 contents with links :: Wednesday 9 July 2014

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Wednesday – JRL 2014-#151 :: 9 July 2014

1. http://burkonews.info: Anti-Terrorist Operation: Summary for July 8, 2014: Facts, Analytics, Forecasts.
2. http://burkonews.info: Briefing of The Head of The Security Service of Ukraine Mr. Valentyn Nalyvaichenko.
3. Kyiv Post: Dmitry Tymchuk’s military blog: Militants planned to blow up railway tracks in Zaporizhzhya oblast.
4. Project Maidan: Ukraine News Summary: July 8th, 2014.
5. Inforesist: Terrorists are promised higher salaries for treason.
6. Kyiv Post: Justice minister moves to ban Communist Party for supporting terrorism.
7. Kyiv Post: Maidan hero creates ‘Cossack Battalion’ to fight war in the east.
8. Euromaidan Press: Verified ways to help the Ukrainian Army.
9. Euromaidan Press: A poem for Hope.
10. The Huffington Post: Ukrainian Astronomers Name A Star ‘Putin-Huilo,’ Which Means ‘Putin Is A D**khead’
11. New York Times: NATO Chief Warns of Duplicity by Putin on Ukraine.
12. The Brookings Institute: Steven Pifer, Kyiv’s Atrocities? A More Nuanced Look at the Ukraine Crisis.
13. Business New Europe: Concorde Capital, Terrorists, Kremlin-linked official say Russia supplied arms, hardware.
14. Moscow Times: James Nixey, Russia’s Invisible Hand Drives Ukraine Conflict.
15. Washington Post: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Putin’s three choices on Ukraine.
16. PONARS Eurasia: Andrey Makarychev, Official Russian Messages in Europe Contain Questionable Parallels and Dubious Conclusions.
17. www.foreignpolicy.com: Mark Galeotti, Putin’s Secret Weapon. Russia’s swashbuckling military intelligence unit is full of assassins, arms dealers, and bandits. And what they pulled off in Ukraine was just the beginning.
18. The Atlantic: Peter Pomerantsev, Seeking Utopia in the New Ukraine.
19. Voice of America: Lithuania President Warns of Growing ‘Russian Chauvinism’
20. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Having Failed to Stage ‘Short Victorious War’ in Ukraine, Putin Faces Problems at Home.
21. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: High Mortality Rates Killing Off Russia, Aganbegyan Says.
22. Boston Globe: David Filipov, Liberties, logic suffer in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Enforceable or not, restrictions rising as president’s popularity soars.
23. Institute of Modern Russia: Donald Jensen, Putin Forever?
24. Deutsche Welle: Russia turns back more than just the clock.
25. Moscow Times: Andrew Bowen, Crimea Will Be Putin’s Undoing.
26. Kyiv Post: Jakub Parusinski, Winning the information war.
27. The National Interest: Ilan Berman, Wanted: A Real War Of Ideas With Russia.
28. US News and World Report: Defense in Decline. U.S. Cuts Defense Budget, While Russia and China Spend More.

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