RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#157 contents with links :: Sunday 20 July 2014

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Johnson’s Russia List JRL 2014-#157 :: Sunday 20 July 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. www.rt.com: 250 civilians killed in Ukraine’s Lugansk during last two months – OSCE.
2. The Guardian: Masha Alekhina, Russian media is covering up Putin’s complicity in the MH17 tragedy.
3. Anders Aslund: The truth about MH17. (SBU video)
3a. Paul Robert Gregory/Anders Aslund: New Post on Russian Guilt; “Here Are The Intercepted Transcripts Indicating Russian Rebels Shot Down Malaysian Flight MH17″
4. Forbes.com: Paul Robert Gregory, Here Are The Intercepted Transcripts Indicating Russian Rebels Shot Down Malaysian Flight MH17.
5. Embassy of the United States, Kyiv Ukraine: United States Assessment of the Downing of Flight MH17 and its Aftermath.
6. AP: US building case tying separatists to Ukraine plane crash.
7. RIA Novosti: OSCE Monitors Inspect Train with Bodies of MH17 Air Crash Victims.
8. RIA Novosti: All Passengers’ Belongings Safe in Place of Malaysia Airlines Plane Crash – OSCE.
9. Reuters: Ukraine plane crash victims put in refrigerated wagons, workers say.
10. Washington Post editorial: The world must know whose weapon destroyed a passenger plane.
11. Washington Post: Anne Applebaum, Look at what Russia had done. Its proxy war in Ukraine has become a real war.
12. Moscow Times: Ukrainian Cows Kidnapped, Trafficked to Russia, Police Say.
13. ITAR-TASS: Kiev’s evidence of militia’s responsibility for airliner crash faked – expert.
14. www.rt.com: Unverified tape released by Kiev presented as ‘proof’ E. Ukraine militia downed MH17.
15. www.rt.com: Moscow: No Buk missile systems or other weapons crossed Russia-Ukraine border.
16. RIA Novosti: Kiev Handing Data on Ukrainian Missiles Could Help Investigation of MH 17 Crash – Moscow.
17. www.rt.com: Malaysia MH17 crash: 10 questions Russia wants Ukraine to answer.
18. ITAR-TASS: Russian experts apportion full blame for Malaysian jet crash to Ukrainian authorities.
19. AP: Ukrainian rebels may have not had appropriate radar system when Malaysian jet shot down, experts say.
20. The Malay Mail: Ukraine air traffic controllers instructed MH17 to fly lower, MAS says.
21. The Observer: Natalia Antonova, MH17 and its aftermath: ‘ordinary Russians are horrified and frightened’
22. Wall Street Journal editorial: The Real Putin. Samantha Power says what Obama won’t about the Russian threat.
23. The American Interest: David Kramer, Dealing with Putin the Pariah. The tragedy of MH17 should be a wake-up call to Western leaders to stop dragging their feet and take decisive action now.
24. The National Interest: Denis Corboy, William Courtney, Kenneth Yalowitz, How to End the Ukraine Nightmare.
25. New York Times: Timothy Garton Ash, Putin’s Deadly Doctrine. ‘Protecting’ Russians in Ukraine Has Fatal Consequences.
26. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Putin Now Faces ‘Existential’ Choice — War Abroad or Civil War at Home, Piontkovsky Says.
27. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, The Downing Of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17: 5 Things You Need To Know.
28. Newsweek.com: Why Would Putin Shoot Down a Plane? (interview with Stephen Cohen)
29. Democracy Now: Stephen Cohen: Downed Malaysian Plane Raises Risk of War Between Russia and the West.
30. Al Arabiya News (United Arab Emirates): Maria Dubovikova, Why Vladimir Putin is not to blame for MH17.
31. The Nation: James Carden, Could the Tragedy of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 Have Been Avoided?
32. History News Network: Walter Moss, Three Lessons We Need to Heed from the Soviet Downing of KAL 007.
33. Facebook: Alexander Mercouris, JULY 1914 AND TODAY
34. RIA Novosti: US Conclusions on Boeing Crash in Ukraine Resemble Statements on Iraq’s Weapons – Rogozin.
35. The Vineyard of the Saker: Memories, recollections, guesses and speculations about MH17.
36. CNN.com: Ukraine may need new bailout.
37. Euromaidan Press: David Batashvili, A different Rus: Why the Kremlin hates Ukrainian statehood.
38. Kyiv Post: Nataliya Trach. EuroMaidan turns into a shady place.