RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#158 contents with links :: Monday 21 July 2014
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Johnson’s Russia List JRL 2014-#158 :: Monday 21 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. Financial Times: Thomas Graham, To stop Putin the west should repair Ukraine’s economy. Those who want Russia punished with tougher sanctions are misguided.
2. Carnegie Moscow Center: Dmitri Trenin, Midsummer Blues.
3. Euromaidan Press/Ukrainska Pravda: The Klimkin interview: terrorism, war, EU, Merkel and Putin. (new Ukraine foreign minister)
4. Reuters: Fighting flares in Ukraine as crash investigators arrive
5. ITAR-TASS: Ukraine’s army launches massive offensive operation on Donetsk.
6. www.rt.com: Kiev forces attack city of Donetsk, civilian casualties reported.
7. Interfax: Water supplies to Donetsk stopped, city has water to last five days at most.
8. ITAR-TASS: Ukraine lacks $26 billion to carry on with military operation in southeast.
9. Business New Europe: Graham Stack, More blame game in Ukraine as dozens die in Luhansk shelling.
10. AP: Kerry: Ukraine Rebels Likely Downed Passenger Jet.
11. One Plus One TV, Kiev: Counterintelligence chief: Ukraine can prove militants got missiles from Russia.
12. UNIAN (Kyiv): Ukrainian defence minister says 35 “Russian mercenaries” captured.
13. Kyiv Post: Authorities: Russia continues firing at Ukrainian positions, moves 100 extra military units to border.
14. Interfax: Russia did not provide Buk missile systems to Donbas militia – Gen. Staff.
15. Interfax: Russian Defense Ministry again asks why Ukrainian Buk-M1 systems were deployed near Donetsk.
16. Moskovskiy Komsomolets: Mikhail Rostovskiy: Civil War in Ukraine Rushes to Russia. Shelling of Our Territory and State Department ‘Fact Sheets’ as ‘Chance’ Links in a Single Chain.
17. Financial Times: Philp Stephens, Putin’s next move – invade eastern Ukraine?
18. Moscow Times: Putin Calls for International Access to Airliner Crash Site.
19. Kremlin.ru: Statement by President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
20. The Aviationist: “All flights, including Malaysian B777, were being escorted by Ukrainian Su-27 Flanker jets over Eastern Ukraine”
21. www.rt.com: Ukrainian Su-25 fighter detected in close approach to MH17 before crash – Russian military.
22. Interfax-Ukraine: Russia has satellite photos of Ukrainian air defense positions near Boeing crash site – general.
23. Reuters: Russia challenges accusations that Ukraine rebels shot down airliner.
24. ITAR-TASS: West doesn’t want objective probe into Malaysian Boeing crash in Ukraine – expert.
25. The Guardian: Alec Luhn, Russians blame Kiev government for MH17 disaster, not Ukrainian rebels.
26. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Press Digest: ‘World on brink of largest political crisis in decades’
27. Moscow Times: Malaysia Airlines Tragedy Not a Game Changer in Ukraine.
28. CNN.com: Daniel Treisman, Vladimir Putin’s big blunder.
29. American Enterprise Institute: Leon Aron, Ukraine: Taking stock after the MH17 disaster.
30. CNN.com: FAREED ZAKARIA GPS. (with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Stephen Cohen and Chrystia Freeland)
31. Russia Direct: Fact-checking the stories about the Malaysian plane crash. There are at least 8 different storylines about the Malaysian plane crash that are either unproven – or, at worst, downright untrue. All of them have the capability to change the narrative of events and set the stage for what happens next in Ukraine.
32. Russia Direct: The media battle over MH17: The Kremlin vs. the world. The tragedy of the downed Malaysian Boeing 777 is turning into a global PR nightmare for the Kremlin. As the situation in Ukraine transforms into front-page news around the world, Russia Direct presents a roundup of how journalists in both Russia and the West have covered this event.
33. Valdai Discussion Club: Sergei Mikheyev, Ukrainian Refugees Have Nowhere else to Go.
34. Moscow Times: Russia to Challenge U.S. Sanctions at WTO.
35. Moscow Times: Vladimir Frolov, MH17 Ends Russia’s Dreams of Soft Power.
36. Izvestia: Andranik Migranyan, Moscow-Beijing Alliance May Create Headache For Washington.
37. The International New York Times: Maxim Trudolyubov, Russia’s Anti-West Isolationism.
38. The Guardian: Oliver Bullough, Punishing Russia for the MH17 tragedy will not help Ukraine. Anger at Russia’s actions is hardening. Yet our leaders should recognise that the west had its own role in Ukraine’s collapse.
39. Russia Direct: Ivan Tsvetkov, History shows that the Malaysian air disaster will force Russia to act. Based on historical precedent, the only way to minimize the grave implications of the Malaysian Boeing crash for Russia is to contribute to an objective and honest investigation into the accident.
40. Business New Europe: Mark Galeotti, MH17 as metaphor for Russia.
41. Business New Europe: Ben Aris, MOSCOW BLOG: Ukraine crisis rending the globe.
42. Russia Direct: Igor Ivanov, The US and Russia need each other now more than ever. Russia and the United States need to have the presence of mind to look beyond short-term tactical victories and defeats and consider the long-term consequences for the wider world.
43. Bloomberg: Russian Billionaires in ‘Horror’ as Putin Risks Isolation.
44. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND DELAYS NEW UKRAINE MONEY FOR WEEKS – CHANGES ITS MIND IN HOURS.
45. Sic Semper Tyrannis: David Habakkuk, Shooting of the Malaysian airliner.
46. Consortiumnews.com: Robert Parry, What Did US Spy Satellites See in Ukraine?
47. Ron Paul Institute: Ron Paul, What the Media Won’t Report About Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17.
48. Moscow Times: Ron Freedman, The Nightmare of Being a Russian-Language Ukrainian Playwright.
49. Russia Beyond the Headlines:L King’s gambit: Can Russia remain a world leader on the chessboard?
