RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#212 table of contents with links :: Friday 10 October 2014
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JRL 2014-#212:: Friday 10 October 2014
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1. Reuters: Special Report: Flaws found in Ukraine’s probe of Maidan massacre.
2. ARD German television: Fatal shootings in Kiev: Who is responsible for the carnage from Maidan.
3. Kyiv Post: Estonian foreign minister, in leaked phone call, raises suspicions about Ukraine’s new government and sniper killings.
4. BBC: Ukraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call. (DJ: For nostalgia’s sake, when Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt were working successfully to form the new government in Kyiv)
5. US Department of State: Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affair, Remarks at the Aspen Institute.
6. Business New Europe: BALTIC BLOG: Nazi death squad leader: The musical
7. AFP: Ukraine to fire up to million bureaucrats with ties to Russian past.
8. RIA Novosti: Kiev, Donetsk Militia Sign ‘Buffer Zone’ Agreement.
9. The Economist: Ukraine at war. Fight club. After the war that was not a war, the ceasefire that is not a ceasefire.
10. TASS: Kiev blames militias for violating ceasefire.
11. Interfax: DPR denies Ukraine’s accusations of ceasefire violations.
12. Euromaidan Press: Azov Regiment to join Ukraine’s National Guard.
13. Ukrayinska Pravda (Kyiv): Ukrainian interior minister’s aide interviewed on volunteer battalions.
14. Moscow Times: Kiev Stores Ordered to Stamp Russian Products With Special Markings.
15. www.foreignpolicy.com: Charles McPhedran, Thug Politics, Kiev. Oleh Lyashko gets into fist fights, kidnaps rebels, and supplies militias (or so he claims). Meet the radical populist who could play kingmaker in post-Maidan Ukraine.
16. Reuters: Ukraine poll foresees big election win for pro-Poroshenko bloc.
17. Kyiv Post: Poroshenko’s Bloc: Old & New Faces.
18. RIA Novosti: US Lethal Aid to Ukraine Could Spark Proxy War With Russia: Scholar. (Michael Kofman)
19. RIA Novosti: Ukraine Should Not Become NATO Member: Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander of Europe. (Wesley Clark)
20. Moscow Times: Chris Weafer, Oil and U.S. Dollar Will Decide Ruble’s Fate.
21. Bloomberg: Russia’s Oil Field Actions to Take Edge Off U.S. Sanctions.
22. TASS: Business climate improves in Russia – World Bank.
23. Blake Marshall, Russia, Ukraine and U.S. Economic Policy “The current challenge for U.S. policymakers is to deploy the tactics of international isolation and economic pressure without sacrificing long-term business interests…”
24. Interfax: Putin hopes for adjustment of Ukraine’s association agreement with EU.
25. www.rt.com: Russia not against European pivot for ex-Soviet allies – Putin.
26. Bloomberg: Islamic State Grooms Chechen Fighters Against Putin.
27. The National Interest: Nikolas Gvosdev, The Bear Has No Claws: Is Russia’s Massive Military Modernization Over? Oil prices could be the deciding factor.
28. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Bad Roads – a Domestic Russian Problem So Bad Putin Can’t Ignore but Can’t Fix.
29. Kremlin.ru: Meeting of the State Council Presidium on improving Russia’s road network.
30. www.rt.com: NATO’s games with Ukraine bring world to 5 minutes before nuclear midnight – Stephen Cohen.
31. RIA Novosti: Former Soviet Leader Gorbachev Out of Hospital, Back at Work.
