RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#225 table of contents with links :: Thursday 30 October 2014

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Johnson’s Russia List
JRL 2014-#225 :: Thursday 30 October 2014
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Ukraine

1. Moscow Times: Fire Sweeps Through Kiev’s Oldest Movie Theater During LGBT Movie.
2. AP: BRUTAL WINTER SET TO HIT WAR-TORN EASTERN UKRAINE.
3. Interfax: Separatist leader in Ukraine’s Donetsk says “preparing for war”
4. RIA Novosti: East Ukraine Demarcation Line Yet to Be Set: DPR Prime Minister.
5. Bloomberg: Ukrainian GDP Plunges 5.1% Amid Deadly Conflict in Nation’s East.
6. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, With nod from Putin, Ukraine rebels defy peace deal with ‘pseudo-election’
7. Interfax-Ukraine: With 99.42 percent of ballots counted, People’s Front leading in Ukraine polls.
8. Business New Europe: Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk parties dispute victory in tight elections.
9. Kyiv Post: Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk’s parties maneuver for lead role in coalition.
10. New York Times: After Ukraine Vote, a New Test: Burying a Legacy of Dysfunctional Politics.
11. Kyiv Post: Some 64 supporters of ‘dictator laws’ return to the parliament.
12. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Russian daily paints gloomy outlook for Ukraine after elections.
13. Center on Global Interests: ‘The Motivation Is To Get Rid Of The Old Soviet Mentality:’ Q&A With Maidan Student Leader.
14. Washington Post: Oxana Shevel, How Putin turned Ukraine to the West.
15. Reuters: Ukraine gas supplies in doubt as Russia seeks EU payment deal
16. TASS: EU, Ukraine reach preliminary deal on financial guarantees of Russian gas supply – source.
17. Business New Europe: Russia offers EU a backdoor out of gas war.
18. Russia Insider: Alexander Mercouris, Gas Talks: Ukraine Can’t Pay, and Russia Won’t Send Gas Until They Do. Its a very simple concept, familiar to anyone who regularly pays a utility bill.
19. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Kommersant: Trio of Russian state-owned banks take EU to court over sanctions.
20. Russia Insider: Kremlin Economy Boss: Please Don’t Cancel Sanctions – They’re Helping Russia. Igor Shuvalov, the top Kremlin official responsible for the economy: Sanctions force companies to modernize, be more efficient, less complacent. We’ve been saying this for months: sanctions are helping Russia. Western media is getting this badly wrong.
21. The Vineyard of the Saker: Something very, very interesting has happened in Novorussia. Something fantastically interesting has happened in Novorussia: two senior Novorussian commanders, Igor Bezler and Alexei Mozgovoi have attempted to communicate with those Ukrainians who are on the other side.
22. Novaya Gazeta: Russian paper interviews separatist leader in Ukraine. (Borys Lytvynov)

Russia

23. Moscow Times: Russia Could Be Facing 35-Year Cold Weather Spell, Scientist Says.
24. Moscow Times: Vast Majority of Russians Think Foreign Media Criticize Putin to Weaken Russia.
25. Business New Europe: Number of Russians ready to support Putin in presidential polls falls from 66% to 38%.
26. Levada.ru: Russian president’s approval rating at six-year high – poll.
27. Interfax: State pollster denies Russian TV brainwashes viewers about Putin.
28. Izvestia: Russian experts look at Putin’s criticism of US foreign policy in Valdai speech.
29. Moscow Times: Moscow’s Deputy Mayor Attempts to Allay Panic Over Health Care Reforms.
30. World Bank: Birgit Hansl, Why Should we Worry about Russia’s Low Growth?
31. Moscow Times: Russia Climbs 30 Places in World Bank Business Ranking.
32. Financial Times: Hard choices facing the rouble’s defenders.
33. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Press Digest: Rosneft offers Kremlin its own set of anti-sanctions measures.
34. The New York Times: The ‘Russification’ of Oil Exploration.
35. Moscow Times: Konstantin Sonin, Ruble’s Fall Echoes 1991, Not 1998.
36. Moscow Times: Just 3 per cent of small Russian businesses last more than 3 years.
37. Interfax: Russian rights officials rule out closure of Memorial organization.
38. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Russian Foreign Ministry denies campaign against Memorial.
39. TASS: Russia remembers victims of political repression
40. Moscow Times: Half of Russians Expect Repeat of Soviet-Era Repression, Poll Says.
41. www.opendemocracy.net: Alexandra Kulikova, What is really going on with Russia’s new internet laws.
42. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Russian Elites Still View Putin as Their Defense Against Russian People, Skobov Says.
43. Reuters: Lucian Kim, Putin’s Moscow is anxious, gilded and hollow.
44. Russia Direct: The ISIS threat is an opportunity for a reset in US-Russian relationship. RD Exclusive: As a follow up to our RD September Monthly Memo, “The Rise and Fall of US-Russian Counter-Terrorism Cooperation,” Dr. Nadezhda Arbatova answers reader questions about U.S. and Russian efforts to counter the threat posed by ISIS.
45. Carnegie Moscow Center: Dmitri Trenin, The World’s Future: Bipolar Geoeconomics?
46. Valdai Discussion Club/Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Anatoly Torkunov, New World Order.
47. The Guardian: Seumas Milne, A real counterweight to US power is a global necessity.
48. http://us-russia.org: Gilbert Doctorow, Foreign Affairs magazine, November-December 2014: the Mearsheimer Debate.
49. RIA Novosti: Crashed US Supply Rocket Antares Partly Developed in Ukraine: Design Office.
50. Moscow Times: How a 1960s Soviet Engine Appeared on an Exploded U.S. Rocket (Video)
51. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: William J. Burns Named Next Carnegie President.
52. New York Times: The Bad Boy of Soviet Writers. Emmanuel Carrère’s New Book Profiles Edward Limonov.