RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#232 table of contents with links :: Friday 7 November 2014

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JRL 2014-#232 :: Friday 7 November 2014
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Ukraine

1. Reuters: Ukraine’s ‘kamikaze’ PM relishes hawkish reputation. (Arseny Yatseniuk)
2. RIA Novosti: Russia Respects, But Does Not Necessarily Recognize Donetsk, Luhansk Elections: Kremlin.
3. Institute of Modern Russia: EVENT | “The Menace of Unreality: How the Kremlin Weaponizes Information, Culture, and Money”
4. New York University’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia: Ilaria Parogni, The media game: Putting on the Cold War goggles.
5. Salon.com: Patrick Smith, The New York Times doesn’t want you to understand this Vladimir Putin speech. The Russian leader delivers an important foreign policy address we should consider. The Times botches it badly
6. Interfax: NSDC does not expect offensive by militia, claims numerical superiority.
7. www.rt.com: Kiev shells Donetsk amid tank battle in city suburb – E. Ukrainian militias.
8. Bloomberg: Ukraine Says Up to 200 Rebels Killed in Donetsk Fighting.
9. Business New Europe: Ukraine says Russia has launched ‘Operation Domino’ in east.
10. RIA Novosti: Allegations of Russian Troops Advancing Toward Ukrainian Border Unfounded: Ministry.
11. www.rt.com: ‘Kiev planned to abide by ceasefire only for election time.’ (interview with Alexander Nekrassov)
12. Levada,ru: Fewer Russians support Putin’s policy towards Ukraine – poll.
13. TASS: Ukrainian citizens forced to leave country amid war, economic crisis – reports.
14. RIA Novosti: Moscow Supports Geneva Format on Ukraine Crisis, but Against ‘Empty’ Meetings: Ministry.
15. Bretton Woods Research: Ukraine Mess Heating Up Again.
16. Moscow Times: Mark Adomanis, Ukraine’s Poverty Jeopardizes Its Democracy.
17. Kyiv Post: Ukraine learns hard way that its military is weak.
18. The Washington Times: Julia Lyovochkina, The real meaning of unity for Ukraine. Parliamentary elections must be followed by steps toward inclusiveness.
19. Moskovskiy Komsomolets: Mikhail Rostovskiy, What does Poroshenko really want from Russia?
20. Counterpunch.org: An Interview with Rozhin Boris. Ukraine Elections Bring Society Closer to Brink of All Out War and Economic Collapse.
21. The Economist: Ukraine’s separatists. Shrinking country. As pro-Russian rebels hold elections, the conflict in Ukraine looks increasingly like a frozen one.
22. The National Interest: Denis Corboy, William Courtney, and Kenneth Yalowitz, Hitting the Pause Button: The “Frozen Conflict” Dilemma in Ukraine. “Georgia’s experience with frozen conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia offers lessons for Ukraine.”
23. Forbes.com: Paul Roderick Gregory, What Can A Republican Senate Majority Do For Ukraine?
24. Russia Insider: Byzantium, The EU Might Crack Up the Way the Soviet Union Did.

Russia

25. Carnegie Moscow Center: Alexei Arbatov, Putin’s Valdai Gambit.
26. Reuters: Ancient Russian’s DNA sheds light on Neanderthal interbreeding.
27. The Greanville Post: THE PROBLEM WITH RUSSIA’S CONTINUED PRESENCE IN EURASIA. Cet animal est tres méchant; Quand on l’attaque il se défend!
28. BBC: Hollywood stereotypes: Why are Russians the bad guys?
29. RIA Novosti: Putin: Life Means Nothing Without Love.
30. Kremlin.ru: Meeting with young academics and history teachers (transcript continues). (DJ: Here’s where you can read what Putin said about history)
31. Bloomberg: Russia Reenacts WWII March After Putin Defends Nazi Pact.
32. Reuters: Pressure mounts on Russian central bank as rouble crisis deepens.
33. Business New Europe: Oil falls below $80 but floating ruble seen mitigating pain for Russia.
34. TASS: Polled Russians say police get more polite.
35. Moscow Times: Firing of Ekho Moskvy Reporter Prompts Speculation Over Fate of Editor-in-Chief.
36. Reuters: Kremlin says US probe of Putin ally is attack on president.
37. Time.com: Oliver Bullough, Former Aide Says Putin Has No Strategic Plans. An oligarch now living in exile in London tells TIME the Russian President can’t imagine life without power. (Sergei Pugachev)
38. TASS: McDonald’s to open 40 new restaurants in Siberia.
39. New York Times: In Ukraine Crisis, U.S. Businesses Face Tit-for-Tat Response to Sanctions.
40. www.rt.com: A third of Russians think Cold War did not end with fall of Berlin Wall.
41. TASS: 25 years after collapse of Berlin Wall: Is the Cold War over?
42. Russia Direct: Ivan Timofeev, Why Russia wants a change to the contemporary world order. If we are truly witnessing another shake-up of the world order, what should be Russia’s strategy for guaranteeing its security and access to global resources in a new multipolar world?
43. Counterpunch.org: Jonathan Power, The Vicissitudes of Post-Gorbachev Russia. Why Russia is Getting Tough.
44. Foreign Policy in Focus: John Feffer, NATO: Rebellion in the Ranks? The countries of the former Warsaw Pact are not knuckling under to pressure from Russia. They’re trying to avoid a new cold war.
45. Reuters: Putin blames politics for falling energy prices.
46. Kremlin.ru: Interview to China’s leading media companies.
47. RussEurope: Jacques Sapir, China, Russia: the big shift.