RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#239 table of contents with links :: Tuesday 18 November 2014

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Johnson’s Russia List
JRL 2014-#239 :: Tuesday 18 November 2014
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Ukraine

1. Sputnik: Kiev Invites Russia to Hold Serious Talks on East Ukraine: Yatsenyuk.
2. Kyiv Post: Yatsenyuk calls for de-escalation while NATO notes further buildup of troops in hungry east.
3. TASS: Talks on eastern Ukraine must involve militias – Russian diplomat.
4. Kyiv Post: Yatsenyuk calls on West to stand firm against Russian aggression.
5. Kyiv Post: Supreme Court to challenge lustration law.
6. TASS: EU begins to understand that Kiev is not conducting reforms it promised – ambassador.
7. Business New Europe: Ukraine to cut financial ties to rebel-held Donbass.
8. Sputnik: Jack Rasmus, IMF and Ukraine-Six Months After.
9. Interfax-Ukraine: Separatist leader seeks economic cooperation with Ukrainian government.
10. Sputnik: Poroshenko: Donbas Children Will Sit in Cellars, “Ours” Will Go to School.
11. www.rt.com: Nadezhda Kevorkova, ‘Donbass’ International Brigade.
12. Euromaidan Press: Ukrainian nationalism as seen by those ready to die for it.
13. TASS: Russian tanks in Ukraine’s southeast a “myth” – envoy.
14. New York Times: Merkel Issues Rebuke to Russia, Setting Caution Aside.
15. TASS: Western countries harm themselves sanctioning Russia – Putin.
16. European Leadership Network: Andrei P. Tsygankov, Pressure on Russia Will Not Benefit the West.
17. TASS: Russia demands US satellite photos of Flight MH17 crash “moment”
18. Russia Direct: Alexey Dolinskiy, What the G20 Summit means for Russia and Ukraine. The early departure of Vladimir Putin from the G20 Summit in Australia means that the situation in Ukraine is not about to fundamentally change anytime soon. But there is still opportunity for private, behind-the-scenes dialogue out of public view.

Russia

19. Interfax: Russians tend to call corruption indestructible – poll.
20. Interfax: Russians say people have right to self-determination but breakup of states undesirable – poll.
21. Interfax: Putin backs proposal to devise procedure for NGOs’ removal from foreign agents register.
22. RFE/RL: Embattled Ekho Moskvy’s Long Record Of Riling Officials.
23. The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia: Anna Arutunyan explains the Putin mystique.
24. PBS Newshour: Is Putin intentionally provoking the West? (with Kimberly Marten)
25. TASS: Russian economy to sink into recession at $60 oil price – finance minister.
26. Moscow Times: Russian Capital Flight May Hit $130 Billion, Finance Minister Says.
27. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Early shift to free-floating policy gives shelter to battered Russian ruble.
28. Business New Europe: Chris Weafer, 2015 looks likely to be Russian economy’s “Annus Horribilis”
29. Wall Street Journal: Russian Agency Looks to Meet With Twitter, Facebook on New Laws.
30. Moscow Times/Reuters: More Than 1 Million People in Russia Live as Slaves, Study Finds.
31. TASS: Russia considers amending controversial law on bloggers.
32. Business New Europe: Russia launches its own ‘Wikipedia’
33. www.opendemocracy.net: Angelina Davydova, The problems of environmental activism in Russia. Climate change is still of little interest to Russians. But why?
34. Moscow Times: Russia May Be Planning National Space Station to Replace ISS.
35. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Press digest: Russia isolated at G20 summit as Putin makes early departure.
36. Russia Insider: Alexander Mercouris, Here’s What Really Happened at the G20 in Australia.
37. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Putin, Now Marginalized Internationally, May Become Even More Dangerous, Oreshkin Says.
38. TASS: Russia sets closer ties with China as overriding priority – defense minister.
39. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Gevorg Mirzayan, Why new ‘quiet rivalry’ between U.S. and China is in Moscow’s interests. Beijing and Washington have developed a mechanism through which one side is to inform the other of any large-scale military actions. They have also agreed on a set of rules of behavior in the event their military units collide at sea or in the air. How will the superpowers’ decision influence the situation in the region?
40. TASS: More Moldovans in favour of joining Customs Union than EU – poll.
41. Russia Insider: Vladimir Golstein, Deconstructing Russophobia.
42. Moscow Times: Marc Bennetts, Grappling With Russians’ Paranormal Obsessions.
43. Sputnik: Peter Lavelle, Propaganda? What Propaganda?
44. www.foreignaffairs.com: Alexander J. Motyl, The Sources of Russian Conduct. The New Case for Containment.
45. http://reconsideringrussia.org: Pietro A. Shakarian, Getting Kennan Right.