RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#220 table of contents with links :: Wednesday 22 October 2014

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Johnson’s Russia List
JRL 2014-#220 :: Wednesday 22 October 2014
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Ukraine

1. The National Interest: Nicolai Petro, Why the Putin Peace Plan Is Working. “If the current peace process has shown anything, it is that Russia remains Ukraine’s only indispensable partner for stability and prosperity.”
2. www.rt.com: Sikorski U-turn: Polish ex-FM backtracks on scandalous ‘divide Ukraine’ claim.
3. www.rt.com: Bryan MacDonald, Fragile fact-checking: How the media fell in and out of love with the Sikorski ‘revelations’
4. AFP: Surgeons in Ukraine’s rebel Donetsk confirm cluster bomb usage.
5. Reuters: East Ukrainians guard against mortar bombs and coming autumn chill.
6. Bloomberg: Mud and Loathing on Russia-Ukraine Border.
7. Foreign Affairs: Faulty Powers. Who Started the Ukraine Crisis? Michael McFaul; Stephen Sestanovich; John J. Mearsheimer.
8. TASS: Crisis in Ukraine stems from Western attempts to move division lines eastwards – Lavrov.
9. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Remarks by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during an open lecture on Russia’s current foreign policy, Moscow, 20 October 2014. (continued)
10. Reuters: Russia says Ukraine should find money to pay for gas within a week.
11. Russia Insider: Eric Kraus, Ukraine: A Trillion Here – A Trillion There. (and pretty soon you are talking about real money)
12. TASS: Sanctions against Russia may last 1-2 years – former finance minister.
13. The Spectator (UK): Liam Halligan, Why the West will surrender in its new cold war with Russia. Sanctions over Ukraine hurt Germany and France far more than anyone else – Moscow included.
14. Russia Insider: Alexander Mercouris, America Laughs as EU Is Punished for Ukraine Disaster. Rather than adding a huge territory (larger than France) to their empire on the cheap, the Europeans must now pour money into an economic basket case.
15. www.thedailybeast.com: Charles McPhedran, Corruption Eats Away at Ukraine Military. Sporadic fighting continues against pro-Russian insurgents. But some of the worst enemies faced by Ukraine’s volunteer soldiers are the crooks in their own army.
16. The Nation: James Carden, Arming Ukraine Is a Very Bad Idea.
17. European Council on Foreign Relations: Andrew Wilson, Who are the contenders in the Ukraine elections?
18. www.consortiumnews: Robert Parry, Germans Clear Russia in MH-17 Case.
19. www.sott.net: Galician separatists in W. Ukraine want to join Europe without the rest of Ukraine.
20. The Spectator (UK): Pádraig Belton, Postcard from Ukraine – meet the artists in exile from the People’s Republic of Donetsk.
21. www.worldaffairsjournal.org: Alexander J. Motyl, Ukraine Should Abandon the Donbas Enclave.
22. Russian International Affairs Council: Sergey Utkin, The Ukrainian Crisis: Russia’s Official Position and How the Situation Can Be Resolved.
23. Glavred (Kiev): Ukrainian analysts say negotiations unlikely to settle Donbass conflict.

Russia

24. Moscow Times: Russians More Afraid of U.S. Than Islamic Terrorism, Survey Shows.
25. Reuters: Russia’s Ruble Steadies as Global Stock Markets Revive.
26. Wall Street Journal: Russia’s Economy Stops Growing in September on Sanctions, Uncertainty.
27. TASS: Government against total control of world web but wants to manage domestic segment.
28. Russia Beyond the Headlines: List of ‘foreign agents’ grows thanks to Justice Ministry. Since Russia’s Justice Ministry received the right to declare organizations “foreign agents” without their consent, the number of NGOs on the list has grown substantially.
29. TASS: Putin asks NGO to devise ways to increase attractiveness of non-raw material businesses.
30. Moscow Times: Russia’s Liberal Ekho Moskvy Braces for Inspection After Running Interview With Putin-Critic Navalny.
31. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Russia loses key Western business ally in airport tragedy. Cristophe de Margerie, who died when his private jet crashed into a snow plow at a Moscow airfield last night, was CEO of France’s Total energy company. It’s just the latest in a string of high-profile plane crashes in Russia.
32. Moscow Times: Despite Swedes’ Sub Panic, Russia’s Baltic Fleet Is Far From Fearsome.
33. http://readrussia.com: Mark Adomanis, Yes, Russia Was a Democracy in the 1990’s. (response to Anne Applebaum)
34. The National Interest: Kenneth Yalowitz, The Complexity of Russia.
35. The London School of Economics and Political Science: Andrei P. Tsygankov, Why Russia’s ‘strong state’ political system still remains a better option for the country than western-style democracy.

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