RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#163 contents with links :: Monday 28 July 2014
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JRL 2014-#163 :: Monday 28 July 2014
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1. Sunday Times (UK): Ukraine rains bombs on separatist-held city.
2. Human Rights Watch: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians. Stop Use of Grads in Populated Areas.
3. ITAR-TASS: Ukraine military operation claims lives of 1,129 people – UN report.
4. Reuters: In Ukraine’s east, Soviet-style economy withers under onslaught.
5. Bloomberg: Stepan Kravchenko, My Captivity in Ukraine Shows Amateurs Succumb to Hatred.
6. CBSNews.com: Interview with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. (re Putin)
7. Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group: Kremlin-backed militants abduct infants with special medical needs.
8. Euromaidan Press: Separatist leaders Girkin & Bezler have fled Donetsk.
9. Euromaidan Press: Balashov: Putin will kill tens of thousands.
10. Euromaidan Press: Putin’s propaganda machine and how to smash it.
11. The American Interest: David Satter, Russia Needs to Learn the Value of Human Life. The MH17 tragedy is the latest sign among many that the Putin regime views individual human lives as expendable. It is up to the West to make clear to Russia that such actions will exclude it from the civilized world.
12. Carnegie Moscow Center: Dmitri Trenin, A Battle For Russia. The Kremlin now sees the U.S. goal as the toppling of the Putin regime. That said, expecting Putin to back off betrays a lack of understanding of the gravity of the situation. It is no longer just a struggle for Ukraine, but a battle for Russia.
13. RIA Novosti: West Creating Geopolitical Project in Ukraine at Loss of Russia’s Interests – Lavrov.
14. New York Times: Fighting Again Forces International Team in Ukraine to Retreat.
15. Moscow Times: In Ukraine, West’s ‘Terrorists’ Are Russia’s Heroes.
16. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Ukraine crisis: On the front lines with a rebel dog.
17. Facebook: Patrick Armstrong, Weapons supply to the eastern Ukrainian rebels.
18. Business New Europe: Graham Stack, Ukraine govt forces move in on “the Devil’s” Donetsk stronghold of Gorlivka.
19. The Vineyard of the Saker: Why Novorussians and Russians are right to treat the Ukie soldiers with compassion and kindness.
20. Interfax-Ukraine: Ukrainian Defense Ministry probing reports about flight of 40 servicemen to Russia.
21. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russian Ambassador to the UK: Only a collective effort can resolve common problems. (Alexander Yakovenko)
22. RIA Novosti: West Ignores Kiev’s Nonfulfillment of Agreements – Lavrov.
23. ITAR-TASS: Decision on US military assistance to Kiev would add fuel to fire – Lavrov.
24. ITAR-TASS: Ukraine’s potential privileged US partner-status political, not military step – experts.
25. RIA Novosti: US Undecided on Lethal Weapons Supplies Requested by Kiev – Report.
26. Business New Europe: Concorde Capital, Pro-presidential party polling fifth for parliamentary vote.
27. Interfax-Ukraine: Pyatt: Yatsenyuk’s cabinet accomplished a lot.
28. ITAR-TASS: Refocusing on West, Ukraine faces economy collapse – Russian Air Force commander.
29. The Independent on Sunday (UK) editorial: Don’t add to President Putin’s catastrophe. Surely it is time for EU leaders to take stock and to try to see the situation through the other side’s eyes.
30. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, How Not To Criticize Vladimir Putin.
31. Interfax-Ukraine: US images cannot serve as proof of Russia’s responsibility for Ukraine shelling.
32. RIA Novosti: Moscow Challenges Authenticity of US ‘Proof’ of Alleged Russian Shelling of Ukraine.
33. The Independent (UK): Andrew Buncombe, Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash: Was a Russian-made missile really parked in this quiet square?
34. Financial Times: Wolfgang Munchau, The west risks collateral damage by punishing Russia.
35. Reuters: Lavrov says Russia will not respond in kind to Western sanctions.
36. Russia Direct: Vasily Yakimkin, After MH17, will the Russian economy survive tougher EU sanctions? The downing of Malaysian Boeing 777 bolsters Europe’s resolve to impose tougher and broader sanctions. If so, how will Russia’s economy adjust?
37. Washington Post: Serhiy Kudelia, Will Eastern Ukraine turn into Northern Ireland?
38. http://rocksolidpolitics.blogspot.ca: Brad Cabana, The Mouse Trap-Battle of Ukraine.
39. The Fiscal Time: Patrick Smith, Obama’s Road to Unintended Consequences in Ukraine.
40. www.rt.com: Pepe Escobar, Ready, reset, go! …to Cold War 2.0.
41. Huffington Post: Martin Hellman, Malaysia Air Flight 17: Let Grief, Not Anger, Guide Us.
42. The Guardian: Russians in London: ‘It’s official policy now to hate us’
43. Russia Direct: Re-thinking US-Russia relations in a post-MH17 world. Think Tank Review: If there’s one thing that U.S. think tanks agree on, it’s that U.S. policy towards Russia and Eurasia must change in response to the tragedy of the downed Malaysian Boeing 777.
44. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Russia Is Not Nigeria.
