RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#210 table of contents with links :: Wednesday 8 October 2014

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Johnson’s Russia List
JRL 2014-#210:: Wednesday 8 October 2014
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Ukraine

1. Interfax: Poroshenko Administration: Ukraine to apply for EU membership in 2020.
2. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Moscow Compensating for Economic Weakness by ‘Harsh’ Foreign Policy Moves, Lukyanov Says.
3. The National Interest: Thomas Graham, The Dangers of a New Containment. “There are good reasons for skepticism that the United States can contain Russia as effectively today as it once did the Soviet Union.”
4. www.rt.com: UN: 3,660 killed, 8,756 wounded in Ukraine conflict since April.
5. RIA Novosti: Nearly 1,000 Servicemen Killed in East Ukraine Hostilities: Military Prosecutor.
6. ITAR: Kiev authorities simulate truce in south-east, prepare for offensive – analysts.
7. AFP: War fears hang over Ukraine.
8. Mashable.com: Christopher Miller, Luhansk, Ukraine: City of Ghosts.
9. BBC: Ukraine shelling shatters Donetsk’s first day of school.
10. Interfax: Almost half Ukrainians doubt government’s ability to protect sovereignty – poll.
11. RIA Novosti: UN Needs Access to Mass Graves in Donetsk: Official.
12. Intefax-Ukraine: Poll shows most Ukrainians believe situation in Donbass war with Russia.
13. Business New Europe: Concorde Capital, More Donbas residents want to remain in the Ukrainian state than separate.
14. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Refugees in Russia from Ukraine in Increasingly Desperate Straits, Experts Say.
15. www.rt.com: Time running out for Ukraine to stockpile gas for winter – Gazprom CEO.
16. Business New Europe: Ukraine fails to gain from EU free trade over six months.
17. Reuters: Ukraine pins economic hopes on conflict-hit industry.
18. Voice of America: Ukraine Wants New IMF Bailout as War Squeezes Economy.
19. www.rt.com: Fitch: Ukraine’s capital two steps away from default.
20. RIA Novosti: Lavrov on Western Sanctions: Lifting Them Is Up to Those Who Imposed Them.
21. RIA Novosti: Less Than Half of Europeans Favor EU Involvement in Ukraine Crisis Settlement: Poll.
22. Russia Direct: Andreas Kindsvater, A new nuclear world with Ukraine’s troubled legacy. The conflict in Eastern Ukraine may be primarily a standoff between Russia, Ukraine and the West, but it will unintentionally lead to the spread of nuclear weapons and undermine efforts in stopping global proliferation.
23. Daily Telegraph (UK): Roland Oliphant, Up to a dozen Ukraine officials dumped in wheelie bins. ‘Trash bucket challenge’ spreads across Ukraine as activisits throw politicians into rubbish bins to ‘punish corruption.’ The perpetrators are often members of the radical right-wing group Right Sector.
24. Vedomosti: Volodymyr Fedorin, Ukrainian revolution will be completed by those who are not being heard now. Moderate reformers in Ukraine will be replaced by radical ones.
25. Quartz: Andrew Wilson, Five things the West can learn from the Ukraine Crisis.
26. Fair Observer: Gordon Hahn, Making and Escalating the Ukrainian Civil War, West and East. Without a positive and constructive effort from the West, Russia and Ukraine might not be able to resolve the current conflict.
27. RIA Novosti: Kiev Preparing Border Control Proposals for Russia, International Community: Nuland.
28. US Embassy Ukraine: Assistant Secretary Victoria Nuland’s Remarks at Shevchenko University in Kyiv.

RUSSIA

29. Russia Beyond the Headlines: What is democracy? A third of Russians don’t know. Results of a recent poll indicate a discontinuity between views on the meaning of democracy and what constitutes democratic leadership.
30. Reuters: Art, songs – and a few worries – as Putin turns 62.
31. AFP: Praise and damnation as Putin marks ‘Herculean’ birthday.
32. RIA Novosti: Russia’s Ethnic Tensions Drop Due to Crimea Reunification, President’s Approval: Kremlin.
33. TASS: Transparent schedule of checks for Russia’s businesses: pros and cons.
34. Moscow Times editorial: Putin Aloof as Russia’s Economic Troubles Close In.
35. Reuters: Finance minister warns Russia can’t afford military spending plan.
36. Interfax: Russia “moving along crisis trajectory” due to trade barriers – experts.
37. Interfax: Muscovites say food embargo doesn’t hamper food quality or assortment – poll.
38. Russia Insider: Eric Kraus, The Rouble, A Perfect Storm. A number of factors, but not sanctions, are causing the Rouble’s fall. Here’s the breakdown.
39. Reuters: Pierre Briancon, Russian central bank intervention is a dead end.
40. Moscow Times: Critic of Russian Economic Policy Ejected From Influential Journal. (Sergei Alexashenko)
41. TASS: Russia’s Internet community sets up expert council to analyze legislative initiatives.
42. Moscow Times: 8 Years on From Politkovskaya’s Murder, Questions Remain.
43. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, VLADIMIR YEVTUSHENKOV RUNS THE GAUNTLET – WHY NOW, WHY NOT?
44. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Can ex-oligarch Khodorkovsky become Putin’s nemesis?
45. Council on Foreign Relations: A Conversation With Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
46. Moscow Times: Theodore Karasik and Richard Galustian, Middle East Threat Must Unite Russia and U.S.
47. Interfax: Georgian president hopes to restore relations with Russia.
48. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Alexey Mikheev, Soulful and spiritual: matters of the heart and mind. According to religious views, besides the carnal body, the human being also has an immaterial substance, which is immortal and eternal. In the Russian language there are two similar words that signify this substance: ‘soul’ and ‘spirit’, and each of them has its own shades of meaning and association.

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