RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#184 table of contents with links :: Saturday 23 August 2014

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Johnson’s Russia List
JRL 2014-#184 :: Saturday 23 August 2014
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1. Financial Times: Trust in Kiev evaporates as fighting causes refugee exodus to swell.
2. RIA Novosti: Shelling Kills Hundreds in Besieged Luhansk in East Ukraine.
3. AFP: No surrender: Ukraine rebels confident despite losses.
4. Reuters: Germany’s vice-chancellor backs “federalisation” in Ukraine.
5. RIA Novosti: Russia’s Defense Ministry Denies NATO Accusations of Military Involvement in Ukraine.
6. www.rt.com: Mission completed: Moscow confirms delivery of aid to E. Ukraine, trucks return to Russia.
7. RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY STATEMENT ON THE START OF THE DELIVERY OF HUMANITARIAN RELIEF AID TO SOUTHEASTERN UKRAINE.
8. RIA Novosti: Russia Says Aid Delivery to East Ukraine Legal, Guided by Humanitarian Principles.
9. RIA Novosti: Russia’s UN envoy Churkin claims Ukraine’s early consent for convoy to move.
10. International Committee of the Red Cross: Rule 55. Access for Humanitarian Relief to Civilians in Need.
11. Interfax-Ukraine: Ukrainian security chief accuses Russia of “direct invasion”
12. www.rt.com: ‘Kiev, US propaganda war leave little motive to let Russian aid in.’ (interview with James Carden)
13. ITAR-TASS: Russian envoy: NATO indifferent to humanitarian disaster in south-eastern Ukraine.
14. www.blisty.cz (Czech republic): Craig Proctor, What it looks like and what it is leading to in Ukraine.
15. Reuters: Merkel says tightening Ukraine-Russian border is key to peace deal.
16. Reuters: Ukraine’s Poroshenko sees removal of Russian ‘mercenaries’ as key to peace.
17. Interfax: Poroshenko: Ukrainian must remain only official language in Ukraine.
18. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Dmitri Trenin, Russia’s New National Strategy.
19. RIA Novosti: Russia Wants Regular, Transparent Reports on MH17 Crash Probe.
20. Moscow Times: Most Russians Support Food Import Ban, Poll Shows.
21. RIA Novosti: Sanctions will freeze rouble integration in world economy – deputy minister.
22. Reuters: Ukraine faces difficult winter without Russian gas – PM.
23. Huffington Post: Kimberly Marten, Why Sanctions Against Russia Might Backfire.
24. Der Speigel: Battle for Ukraine. An Inside View of the Surreal Donetsk War Zone.
25. Washington Post: Anne Applebaum, Obama’s legacy could be a revitalized NATO.
26. Washington Post editorial: On Ukraine, any bargain is a bad bargain.
27. Counterpunch.org: Joyce Nelson, Monsanto and Ukraine. GM Food, Ukraine and the Return of Hill + Knowlton.
28. Russia Direct: The rise of ‘whataboutism’ in Russian media after Ferguson. Weekly media roundup: The focus of the Russian media this week has been on the riots in Ferguson, the execution of an American journalist by ISIS, and the closing of several McDonald’s in the center of Moscow.
29. Washington Post: Ishaan Tharoor, Was Putin right about Syria?
30. ITAR-TASS: Viktor Litovkin, Western politicians’ belated insight.
31. Carnegie Corporation of New York: Rebuilding US-Russia Relations: Thomas Remington, Lessons Learned and Not Learned.

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