RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#215 table of contents with links :: Wednesday 15 October 2014
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JRL 2014-#215 :: Wednesday 15 October 2014
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1. Business New Europe: Ukraine’s lustration law bans up to a million from holding office, Poroshenko escapes.
2. Interfax: Medvedev: Reset for Russia-U.S. relations impossible for now.
3. TASS: Russia has no plans to restore Soviet Union – Medvedev.
4. RIA Novosti: Medvedev: Russian Troops Movements Not Signal to Anyone.
5. Interfax: Medvedev believes unitary state in Ukraine has no future but choice is up to Ukrainians.
6. Government.ru: Dmitry Medvedev’s interview with CNBC.
7. Kremlin.ru: Meeting of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.
8. RIA Novosti: Putin prepared to be held responsible for all happening in Russia.
9. Interfax: Russia remains open to free trade zone with EU, Lavrov says.
10. TASS: Russia warns of soaring neo-Nazi threat in Europe.
11. Reuters: Putin, Poroshenko to discuss Ukraine peace, gas supplies in Milan.
12. Russia Direct: Ivan Tsvetkov, Putin’s Italian gambit: Reconfiguring the Ukrainian chessboard. Why is Vladimir Putin so interested in the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Milan, and what results does he hope to achieve when he meets with Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko?
13. TASS: Truce in Ukraine fragile, but a step towards a dialogue – Kremlin administration head. (Sergey Ivanov)
14. Business New Europe: Tim Ash, Back-of-envelope estimate of cost to Russia of Ukraine crisis is $100bn in 2014.
15. Business New Europe: Tim Ash, Seven parties enter parliament, Poroshenko Bloc gets third of votes – survey.
16. Kyiv Post: Yatsenyuk’s People’s Front is gaining momentum weeks ahead of elections.
17. RIA Novosti: Putin Limits Foreign Capital’s Participation in Russian Media: Government.
18. Moscow Times: Majority of Russians Endorse Internet Censorship.
19. Reuters: European firms in Russia say they fear being ‘sacrificed’ in Ukraine standoff.
20. Financial Times: Can Europe wean itself off Russian gas? Political tensions and high prices from Gazprom are driving shifts that suggest Moscow does not hold all the cards.
21. Reuters: U.S., Russia agree to share intelligence on common enemy: Islamic State militants.
22. www.rt.com: Divided over Ukraine, but US & Russia band together to fight ISIS.
23. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Opening remarks and answers to media questions by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
24. US Department of State: Remarks at a Solo Press Availability. John Kerry, Secretary of State.
25. Interfax: Russian security chief says relations with USA resemble cold war.
26. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, China cashes in on Russia’s shrinking economic options. Putin said China-Russia trade could hit $200 billion by 2020, as Beijing takes advantage of Western pressure on Moscow to cut sweetheart trade and investment deals.
27. www.rt.com: Pepe Escobar, The Saudi oil war against Russia, Iran and the US
28. New York Times: Thomas Friedman, A pump war?
29. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, GLOBAL WAR AGAINST RUSSIA TAKES NEW TURN – CHINA ATTACKS AUSTRALIAN COAL, FAVOURS RUSSIAN COAL.
30. Russia Direct: Vladimir Sotnikov, The Kremlin shores up its influence along Caspian Sea. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu’s visit to Azerbaijan is further evidence that Russia is trying to increase its influence and block Western ambitions in the Caspian region.
31. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Kremlin-Run Generational Change in Regime Reproducing Soviet-Era Nomenklatura, Pastukhov Says.
32. RIA Novosti: Ukraine Facing Overall Energy Crisis as Internal Conflict Affects Both Gas, Coal: Expert.
33. Washington Post: Steven Mufson, Ukraine’s economy choking under Russian pressure, but Western help is scarce.
34. RIA Novosti: Ukrainian Teens Tweet Nazi Propaganda, Boast of Burning Russians.
35. Kyiv Post: Ukrainians hate and despise Putin, poll shows.
36. Moscow Times: Harley Balzer, Is Alaska Next on Russia’s List?
37. Reuters: The Great Debate. ‘In Putin’s mind, Ukraine is not a nation’
38. The Vineyard of the Saker: Geopoliticians discuss the Russian response to America’s ‘declaration of war’
39. Counterpunch.org: An Interview with “The Saker.” The Ukraine, As We Know It, Is Gone Forever.
40. Jamestown Foundation Eurasia Daily Monitor: Pavel Baev, De-Modernization and Degradation-A Net Assessment of Russia’s Domestic Situation Since the Start of 2014.
41. Center on Global Interests: Konstantin Avramov and Anna Guryanova, Western Sanctions, Russia’s Pivot East, and the Innovation Crisis.
