RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#170 contents with links :: Wednesday 6 August 2014

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Johnson’s Russia List
JRL 2014-#170 :: Wednesday 6 August 2014
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UKRAINE

1. ITAR-TASS: Ukraine rife with police defections and disloyalty – Kiev government adviser.
2. Interfax: Luhansk is without power, water supply, communications – city council.
3. AP: Air strike hits key rebel city as government steps up effort to crush mutiny in east Ukraine.
4. AFP: Rebel-held Donetsk hit by air strike as Ukraine forces close in.
5. Interfax: Shooting, explosions cease in Donetsk, utility workers restore gas, water supplies – city council.
6. http://america.aljazeera.com: Ian Bateson, Will Donetsk be the next Grozny? Ukrainian city’s future depends on whether a political solution can be found quickly enough to avoid a siege.
7. www.rt.com: UN: ‘Scared of the way military operations conducted in E. Ukraine’
8. RIA Novosti: Kiev Uses Uragan Multiple-Launch Rocket Systems, Cruise Missiles Against Militia.
9. Interfax: Russian rights ombudsman urges Kiev to set up humanitarian corridor.
10. RIA Novosti: ICRC Ready to Help Russian Red Cross Set Up Humanitarian Corridor in Ukraine.
11. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, UN: Nearly a million Ukrainians have fled fighting in east. Most of the displaced are in Russia – and putting strains on facilities and infrastructure there, say the UN refugee agency and local Russian officials.
12. RIA Novosti: OSCE Spokesman Says Wrong to Call Ukraine’s Independence Supporters ‘Separatists’
13. RIA Novosti: Kiev Admits Foreigners Take Part in East Ukraine Military Operation.
14. Wall Street Journal: War Exacts Heavy Toll on Ukraine’s Economy and National Mood. Long Slog of Conflict in East Further Imperils Already Fragile Growth Prospects.
15. ITAR-TASS: American media refuse to meet with Ukrainian servicemen who asked for asylum in Russia.
16. RIA Novosti: Russian Lawmaker Bashes US Media as ‘State Department Spin-Offs’
17. ITAR-TASS: Western media reluctant to cover Ukrainian crisis impartially.
18. ITAR-TASS: Russia Defense Ministry to open social network accounts to bring unbiased info to Pentagon.
19. Russia Direct: Andrei P. Tsygankov, Russia has an inferiority complex, America has a superiority complex. There’s something about Russia’s attempts to establish a strong national identity in the post-Cold War era that clashes with America’s perceptions of its unique role in the world.
20. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Press Digest: Will Russia limit EU flights via its airspace over sanctions?
21. Interfax-Ukraine: Attitude of Russian citizens towards Ukraine getting worse.
22. Interfax: Pentagon, NATO make baseless claims about Russia increasing military presence along border with Ukraine – ministry.
23. ITAR-TASS: US considers all Russian military drills provocative in regard to Ukraine.
24. Interfax: Russian Defence Ministry ridicules US concerns over Air Force drill.
25. ITAR-TASS: Putin orders government to consider retaliation to western sanctions.
26. Kremlin.ru: Working meeting with Acting Governor of Voronezh Region Alexei Gordeyev.
27. Interfax-Ukraine: Russians consider sanctions to be unacceptable, inefficient way to influence country – poll.
28. Moscow Times: Who Is Benefiting From West-Russia Sanctions War?
29. RIA Novosti: EU Sanctions Against Russia Akin to Radiation Which Harms Everyone.
30. www.foreignaffairs.com: Stuart Gottlieb and Eric Lorber, The Dark Side of Interdependence. How Global Ties Tied Our Hands in Russia.
31. Newsweek.com: Will Sanctions on Russia Tip the World Into Recession?
32. www.rt.com: Peter Lavelle, It’s Putin’s fault–really?
33. Carnegie Moscow Center: Akio Kawato, Who Is in Charge of an End Game in Ukraine? A View From Tokyo
34. Moscow Times: Georgy Bovt, Moscow Needs a Plan B in Ukraine.
35. www.chathamhouse.org: John Lough, The West Needs an ‘Off Ramp’ for Putin in Ukraine.
36. Washington Post: Danel Drezner, The most annoying tic in the American foreign policy machine
37. Stars and Stripes: Leaders call for NATO to boost military presence in east.
38. ITAR-TASS: No prospects for Russia-US relations in near future – lawmaker.
39. Vedomosti: Vasiliy Kashin, expert with the Centre for the Analysis of Strategies and Techniques, Our Generation’s Cold War. Within the Next Few Months Russia Will Inevitably Have To Go Over to A New, Mobilizational, Model of Development.
40. Vineyard of the Saker: Detailed expert analysis of the MH17 downing.
41. Facebook: Brief of Igor Strelkov and Vladimir Altyufeev about preparing of terrorist act by Kiev Junta.

RUSSIA

42. Kremlin.ru: State Council Presidium meeting on developing social protection system for senior citizens.
43. Moscow Times: Blocked BBC Interview Highlights Authorities’ Insecurities.
44. Moskovskiy Komsomolet: Natalya Rozhkova, Black-hundred organizations form anti-Maydan council for 14 September elections. Maydans on local scale.
45. Moscow Times/Vedomosti: Alexei Levinson, Russia Supports Putin Because It Fears Dissent.
46. Russia Beyond the Headlines: New Moscow illusion museum allows visitors to wrestle with Putin.
47. St. Petersburg Times: PROTESTERS LEFT IN PEACE AT ANNUAL LGBT RALLY.
48. RIA Novosti: Dmitry Babich, Suspicion of Politicizing Verdicts Against Russia for Yukos Undermines West’s Moral Weight.
49. Moscow Times: Christopher Miller, Russia Can’t Replace the West With China.
50. www.rt.com: Sanctioned Russia and Iran sign 5-yr deal to ease Western pressure.
51. Interfax: U.S. tried to disrupt Russian-Iranian memorandum on mutual understanding – newspaper.
52. Carnegie Moscow Center: THOMAS DE WAAL, Karabakh’s Guns of August.
53. Valdai Discussion Club: Sergey Mironenko, WWI: A Tragic Turning Point in Russian History.
54. Moscow Times: Stephen Norris, Eastern Front Also Produced Great WWI Prose.