RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#205 table of contents with links :: Wednesday 1 October 2014

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Johnson’s Russia List
JRL 2014-#205 :: Wednesday 1 October 2014
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Ukraine

1. Euromaidan PR: Expert: by applying in 2020, Ukraine will become an EU member before 2035.
2. Kyiv Post: Right Sector roughs up Shufrych in Odesa, promises new attacks.
3. www.rt.com: ‘Over my dead body’: Defiant Ukrainian MP beaten by nationalist mob (VIDEO).
4. www.rt.com: Massive Lenin statue sawn down, toppled in Ukraine’s Kharkov (PHOTOS, VIDEO).
5. www.rt.com: Violence erupts near toppled Lenin statue in Kharkov, Ukraine (VIDEOS).
6. Washington Post: Rick Noack, What toppled Lenin statues tell us about Ukraine’s crisis.
7. The Guardian: Agata Pyzik, Why Soviet monuments should be protected. People who deface and destroy statues across the former USSR are confusing the past with the present.
8. www.rt.com: Ukraine authorities in massive ‘Rename Soviet Places’ drive.
9. www.rt.com: At least 11 killed, 40 injured in shelling in Donetsk, E. Ukraine, school hit.
10. ITAR-TASS: Dozens of bodies found in mass graves in eastern Ukraine.
11. RIA Novosti: Lavrov: 400 Bodies Found in Ukraine Mass Graves Are Evidence of War Crime.
12. The Washington Times: U.S. counterinsurgency operatives deployed to Ukraine.
13. RIA Novosti: US Deploying Battle Tanks, Some 700 Troops to Baltic States, Poland: Reports.
14. Reuters: Winter season heightens Russia-Europe gas game.
15. ITAR-TASS: Coming winter forces Kiev into paying part of gas debt.
16. Channel One TV (Moscow): Ukraine faces dilemma of “stealing” Russian gas or being frozen – TV show.
17. Reuters: Ukraine’s Naftogaz fails to pay $1.6 bln govt-guaranteed bond; no default yet.
18. Business New Europe: First major corruption case is litmus test for Poroshenko’s new Ukraine.
19. Carnegie Moscow Center: Ukraine Election Countdown: 26 Days Remaining.
20. Thompson Reuters Foundation: Chris Arsenault, Are sanctions against Russia worth the cost?
21. Washington Post: Estonia’s president: Russia is threatening ‘the entire post-World War II order’
22. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Putin isn’t Mad, He’s Evil and Thus Responsible for His Crimes, Guzman Says.
23. The Daily Mail (UK): Gary Kasparov declares Vladimir Putin ‘the most dangerous man in the world and a greater threat to the US than ISIS’

Russia

24. RIA Novosti: Bolshoi Kicks Off Opera Season With Reduced Tchaikovsky.
25. Financial News: Hugo Bain, Letter from Moscow: Sanctions unite Russians behind Putin.
26. Reuters: Putin Says He’s ‘Not Even Considering’ Curbing Internet Access.
27. Interfax: Russian govt develops measure to prevent disruptions of Russian Internet.
28. Interfax: Third of Russians think Russia has all the democracy it needs – poll.
29. Moscow Times: Most Russians Are Against Broadening Foreign Travel Restrictions, Survey Shows.
30. Moscow Times editorial: Life After Putin: Russia Needs to Be Rebuilt From Scratch.
31. Moscow Times: Russia’s Political Future Seen in Its Self-Governing Past.
32. Bloomberg: Putin Doesn’t Make Decisions Under Pressure, Sechin Says.
33. www.rt.com: Russian Central Bank rejects capital controls as ruble hits lowest level since 1998.
34. Reuters: POLL-Russian economy to see zero growth this year as Ukraine fall-out bites.
35. Wall Street Journal: IMF Slashes Russia’s 2015 Growth Forecast. IMF Says Geopolitical Uncertainty is Having a Big Impact on Economy.
36. ITAR-TASS: New wave of sanctions against Russia not to lead to recession – official.
37. Interfax: Poll: Less than quarter of Russians believe sanctions linked to Moscow policy for Ukraine.
38. The Economist: Economic pain, caused by Ukraine.
39. Business New Europe: Ben Aris, INTERVIEW: Jim Rogers calls West “foolish” and invests again in Russia.
40. RIA Novosti: Western Sanctions on Russia Will Not Affect Rosneft-ExxonMobil Partnership: Oil Analyst.
41. The Guardian: Satellite images show Aral Sea basin ‘completely dried.’ An area of the Central Asian inland sea – once the fourth largest in the world – was left parched in August, according to Nasa photographs.
42. Moscow Times: Russia Is Running Out of Forest.
43. Russia Beyond the Headlines: What is behind arrest of billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov? The investigation into Vladimir Yevtushenkov, one of Russia’s preeminent businessmen (his net worth has been estimated at $9 billion by Forbes) has led many to compare his case with that of ex-Yukos owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was released in late 2013 after spending a decade in prison. However, unlike Khodorkovsky, Yevtushenkov has not engaged in politics.
44. Moscow Times: Kremlin Human Rights Council Slams Russia’s New Foreign Media Bill.
45. Wall Street Journal: Book Review: ‘Putin’s Kleptocracy’ by Karen Dawisha. Every major business that sprouted up in Russia in the early 1990s had the help of former KGB officers-and their money.
46. www.opendemocracy.net: Ekaterina Loushnikova, The metamorphoses of Nikita Belykh.
47. RIA Novosti: Fears of Radicalization Among Muslim Youth Rising in Russia.
48. Valdai Discussion Club: Alexei Malashenko, Islam in Russia: Changes in the Kremlin’s Rhetoric.
49. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Maksim Makarychev, The mind cannot understand Obama. US leader tries to resolve domestic problems through anti-Russian rhetoric.
50. Interfax: Russia cancels participation in U.S. education program after Russian student stayed in U.S. – children’s rights commissioner.
51. Russia Direct: The Kremlin is inflexible with FLEX educational program. The Kremlin’s decision to cancel the U.S.-funded exchange program for Russian high school students has raised concerns among U.S. Embassy officials, students, leaders of educational exchanges and academics.
52. The Times (UK): Paddy Ashdown, We must embrace Putin to beat Islamic State. Russia is an essential ally in the fight against jihadism. The alternative is a global religious war.
53. AP: NATO Gets New Chieve, One Putin May Approve of.
54. Wall Street Journal: Russian State Media Portray Hong Kong Protests as U.S. Plot. Echoing Kremlin Line on Protests in Moscow and Kiev, State TV Sees U.S. Hand in Pro-Democracy Movement.
55. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Eastern Europe Is Facing A Rapidly Worsening Demographic Crisis.

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