RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#231 table of contents with links :: Thursday 6 November 2014

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JRL 2014-#231 :: Thursday 6 November 2014
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Ukraine

1. The National Interest: James Carden, Get Ready, World: Ukraine Is Being Torn to Shreds. Partition. Elections. Debt. Disaster.
2. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, In Ukraine, concerns rise of fresh conflict as peace plan collapses. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is ordering stronger defenses in key eastern cities, as NATO warns Russia is concentrating military forces on Ukraine’s border.
3. Interfax-Ukraine: Donetsk authorities report non-stop shelling in city.
4. RIA Novosti: Donetsk Faces Kiev’s Full-Scale Military Action: DPR Leader.
5. AFP: Surrounded by rebels, Ukrainian soldiers battle on.
6. http://english.pravda.ru: Ukrainian military kill children while they play football at school.
7. AFP: Bone by bone, Ukraine identifies its dead.
8. RIA Novosti: Donetsk, Luhansk Say Preparing New Peace Plan.
9. RIA Novosti: One Russia not keen on recognizing Ukraine’s separatist regions.
10. TASS: Flow of Ukrainian refugees may surge again but Russian authorities say they’ll manage.
11. Ukrayinska Pravda : Ukrainian pundit urges president to tell society “bitter truth” about Donbass. (Serhiy Datsyuk)
12. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Ukraine Now Fighting Not for Donbas but for Its Survival as a State and Nation, Babchenko Says.
13. Euromaidan Press: The Republicans’ victory in the U.S. may increase support of Ukraine?
14. Euromaidan Press: Diplomat thinks GOP election victory will help Ukraine.
15. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, UKRAINE LOSES US ELECTION – AMERICAN VOTERS GIVE THUMBS DOWN TO DEMOCRATS’, HILLARY CLINTON’S WAR AGAINST RUSSIA.
16. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Press Digest: Donbass elections leave Moscow in a tight spot.
17. Moscow Times: Specter of ‘Russian Taliban’ Looms in Ukraine.
18. RIA Novosti: NATO should encourage Ukraine to talk to rebels – Russian envoy.
19. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Kommerant: Alexander Grushko: Ukraine was pretext for NATO to resurrect itself.
20. The Washington Free Beacon: Bill Gertz, Russia Moving Missiles, Rockets Toward Eastern Ukraine. NATO commander: Deployment of western “rotational forces” needed in Poland, Romania, the Baltics.
21. Reuters: INTERVIEW-Czech PM says sanctions hurting Russia, not changing Putin’s behaviour.
22. RBC Daily (Moscow): Anders Aslund, Why Is Ukraine So Poor?
23. www.shoredailynews.com: Orbital to discontinue using Ukranian engines.
24. Moscow Times: Judy Dempsey, It’s No Time for EU Wobbling Over Ukraine.
25. Columbia University’s Harriman Institute: The Menace of Unreality: How the Kremlin Weaponizes Information, Culture and Money. (with Michael Weiss)
26. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, ANNE APPLEBAUM IS NOT A WAR PROFITEER, BUT HER HUSBAND REVEALS THAT SHE WAS PAID MORE THAN $800,000 IN 2013 – AND THAT WAS BEFORE THE SHOOTING STARTED IN UKRAINE.
27. www.edudemic.com: 18 Resources to Explore the Ukrainian Crisis with Your Class.

Russia

28. Kremlin.ru: Meeting with young academics and history teachers.
29. AFP: Gorbachev to use Berlin Wall festivities to ‘defend Putin’
30. The Huffington Post: Kissinger: Putin Is Not Stalin.
31. RIA Novosti: Spokesman calls Putin’s Forbes rating “logical”, appraisal “tendentious”
32. www.rt.com: Peter Lavelle, Hitler-Stalin meme: When childish talk becomes dangerous.
33. Huffington Post: Sebastian Christ (HuffPost Germany), If You Want To Understand Putin, You Have To Know These 15 Facts.
34. Reuters: U.S. money-laundering probe draws in Putin’s inner circle – WSJ.
35. Interfax: Russians say Moscow-Washington relations got worse under Obama – poll.
36. Interfax: Congress Republicans to step up pressure on Obama to toughen Russia policy – analyst. (Alexei Makarkin)
37. Moscow Times: Riches Don’t Come Honestly in Russia, Most Russians Say.
38. TASS: Grim outlook for Russian stocks due to geopolitical tensions, weak ruble.
39. Reuters: Rouble drops over 2 pct after c.bank loosens grip.
40. New York Times: On Unity Day, Putin Divides Nationalists.
41. Moscow Times: Ivan Sukhov, Why Russia’s Unity Day Has No Meaning.
42. Interfax: Russian rights activist said denied entry into Ukraine.
43. Moscow Times: Russian Tabloid Deletes Article Claiming Navalny Received Kremlin Funds.
44. Moscow Times: John Freedman, Take a Vacation to Crimea at Embattled Teatr.doc.
45. Russia Direct: Russian foreign policy is not aggression, it’s fatalism. Think Tank Roundup: Russian experts forecast increasing confrontation with the West based on recent foreign policy pronouncements by Russia’s elite and the lack of any breakthroughs in solving the Ukraine crisis.
46. Russia Direct: Is Russia’s foreign policy running out of gas? U.S. Think Tank Review: Now that Russian officials have recognized the controversial separatist elections in Eastern Ukraine as legitimate, Western think tanks have refocused their attention on Ukraine and how best to deal with Russia going forward.
47. RussEurope: Jacques Sapir, A seminal speech. Echoes of Munich 2007 in Sotchi 2014.
48. The Globalist: Stephan Richter, Global Truths on Putin’s Tirades. Russia’s president constantly undermines his own case on the global stage.
49. Carnegie Moscow Center: Alexander Gabuev, Russia’s Performance in Multilateral Organizations: Pivot to Asia or Just to China?
50. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: If Anyone is Going to Attack Russia, It Will Be China – and When China Does So, It will Win, Khramchikhin Says.
51. www.rt.com: Putin promises support to Afghanistan after ISAF withdrawal.
52. Alaska Dispatch News: Expert predicts ice-free Arctic by 2020 as UN releases climate report.
53. Moscow Times: Elizabeth Buchanan, Sanctions Can’t Freeze Russia Out of the Arctic.
54. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Russian Foreign Ministry rights official interviewed on relations with USA.
55. New York Times: Russia Plans to Boycott 2016 Nuclear Meeting Hosted by Obama.
56. Russia Beyond the Headlines: U.S.-Russia continue medical cooperation. Joint programs in regional hospitals are less sensitive to geopolitical disagreements.