RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#182 table of contents with links :: Thursday 20 August 2014

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Johnson’s Russia List
JRL 2014-#182 :: Thursday 21 August 2014
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Ukraine

1. The Daily Mail (UK): Kiev in U-turn over claim that ‘Russian tanks, artillery and 1,200 fighters’ had been deployed in Eastern Ukraine as evidence fails to materialise.
2. Wall Street Journal: Ukraine Suffers Heavy Losses in Counterattack by Pro-Russia Rebels.
3. ITAR-TASS: Luhansk stays without water and electricity as Ukraine’s military continues shelling.
4. AP: Ukraine’s dying rebel capital seeks normal life against the soundscape of war.
5. www.rt.com: ‘I never saw people die before’: Injured girl shares horrors of Donetsk shelling (VIDEO). (DJ: Perhaps worth looking at.)
6. RIA Novosti: Red Cross Regrets Russian Humanitarian Aid Delayed by Ukraine’s Customs – ICRC.
7. Facebook: Alexander Mercouris, GRAHAM PHILLIPS.
8. ITAR-TASS: Duma speaker muses on Western silence over missing Russian reporter.
9. Reuters: Ukraine bans Russian TV channels for airing war ‘propaganda’
10. RIA Novosti: Watchdog Urges Kiev to Reverse Ban on Russian TV Channels.
11. www.rt.com: Russians fear war with neighbors, colonization by foreigners.
12. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Do negotiations on Ukraine in Minsk offer real prospects for progress?
13. ITAR-TASS: Crisis in eastern Ukraine unlikely to be solved exclusively by force – Poroshenko.
14. Carnegie Moscow Center: Alexey Malashenko, The World Is Getting Used to the Ukrainian Crisis.
15. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Press Digest: Poroshenko is cutting charismatic Euromaidan leaders loose.
16. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Remarks by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his answers to media questions during a news conference following the meeting of the foreign ministers of Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine, Berlin, August 18, 2014.
17. Interfax: Some 100,000 Ukrainians request refugee status or temporary asylum in Russia – migration service.
18. ITAR-TASS: Ukrainians turning Russian.
19. New York Times: Annexation of Crimea Divides an Artist Colony Founded on Tolerance.
20. Interfax: Poroshenko could dissolve Rada Aug 24 – spokesperson.
21. Reuters: Gazprom says Ukraine’s unpaid gas bill tops $5 billion.
22. Austere Insomniac: The Harvest Of Despair.
23. Reuters: Ukraine’s economy minister Sheremeta offers resignation.
24. Financial Times: Ukraine’s economy: Broken down. The country’s finances have worsened, raising pressure on the International Monetary Fund.
25. Reuters: After Russia targets McDonald’s, businesses wonder who’s next.
26. RIA Novosti: Putin Would Not Be Lured Into Military Invasion of Ukraine – Expert. (Clifford Gaddy)
27. Business New Europe: The west is to blame for the Ukraine fracas.
28. Peterson Institute for International Economics: Anders Aslund, Is the West to Blame for Russia’s Aggression in Ukraine? Of Course Not!
29. The National Interest: James Carden, Ukraine’s Nightmare Drags On. In recent weeks, the American media has seemed focused on reporting on nearly every newsworthy event-except the Ukraine crisis.
30. Carnegie Corporation of New York: Rebuilding US-Russia Relations: Deana Arsenian, Introduction. United States and Russia: A Relationship to Manage
31. Carnegie Corporation of New York: Rebuilding US-Russia Relations: Thomas Graham, A Russia Problem, Not a Putin Problem.
32. Carnegie Corporation of New York: Rebuilding US-Russia Relations: Matthew Rojansky, It’s All About Ukraine.
33. Carnegie Corporation of New York: Rebuilding US-Russia Relations: Henry Hale, Nationalism and the Logic of Russian Actions in Ukraine.
34. Carnegie Corporation of New York: Rebuilding US-Russia Relations: John Steinbruner, A Moral and Strategic Calamity.
35. Baltimore Sun: Jerome Israel, The U.S. needs Russia. Instead of alienating Russians, we should be pulling them in.
36. The National Interest: Thomas Sherlock, Putin’s Public Opinion Challenge. “With low popular support for escalation, Putin faces a sharpening dilemma.”
37. CNN.com: Olga Oliker and Keith Crane, Make Russia an offer on Ukraine it can’t refuse.
38. The International New York Times: Paul Saunders, When Sanctions Lead to War.
39. RFE/RL: Explainer: Moscow’s Food War With West Could Hurt Russia Most.
40. Kyiv Post: Dmitry Tymchuk’s military blog: Key parts of Luhansk under control of Ukraine forces.
41. www.rt.com: Bryan MacDonald, Why isn’t Ukraine a cause for Hollywood celebrities?
42. Kyiv Post: Q&A with US sanctions policy chief Daniel Fried on checking Russia’s aggression toward Ukraine.

Russia

43. www.rt.com: Communists want ‘court of honor’ to judge civil servants.
44. Moscow Times: Andrei Kortunov, Open Borders Are Russia’s Birthright.
45. Reuters: Russian Rocket Engines Delivered to U.S. Despite Escalating Tensions.
46. Business New Europe: Joe Parson, Sanctions aim at Russia’s Arctic push.
47. Interfax: Russians say Abkhazia and S.Ossetia are independent states and should remain as such – poll.
48. ITAR-TASS: Elimination of Syria’s chemical weapons is above all Russia’s merit.

Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia Map of Commonwealth of Independent States, European Portion

 

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