RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#79 contents with links :: Wednesday 9 April 2014
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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#79 :: 9 April 2014
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1. RIA Novosti: Russia Continues Economic Aid to Ukraine Despite Illegitimate Govt. – Putin.
2. Moscow Times: John Freedman, Can Art Save Russia’s Face?
3. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Neither Putin nor Obama Wants to Be Known as the One Who ‘Lost’ Ukraine, Mirsky Says.
4. Forbes.com: Paul Roderick Gregory, Respected Ukrainian Military Analyst Warns Russian Invasion Imminent (But First Need Dead Protesters). (Dmitry Tymchuk)
5. RIA Novosti: No Buildup of Russian Troops on Ukrainian Border – Foreign Ministry.
6. Reuters: U.S., Russia, Ukraine and EU to meet on Ukraine crisis.
7. AFP: East Ukraine city faces separatist split.
8. Reuters: Separatists build barricades in east Ukraine, Kiev warns of force.
9. www.rt.com: Kiev threatens force against eastern Ukraine protesters.
10. Interfax: Anti-Maidan protesters still control building of Donetsk region’s administration.
11. Interfax: Tihipko didn’t see hostages, Russian citizens in occupied building of Ukrainian Security Service in Luhansk.
12. Interfax: Russia not financing unrest in eastern Ukraine – senator.
13. Interfax: Putin hopes Kyiv to refrain from irreversible decisions.
14. www.rt.com: Russia can’t support Ukrainian economy forever- Putin.
15. Interfax: Daily activities by Russian troops on their national territory pose no threat to U.S., OSCE countries – Russian Foreign Ministry.
16. Russia Beyond the Headlines: No Russian peacekeepers to Ukraine without UN resolution, says Moscow.an
17. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, No Matter What Happens In The East, Ukraine Is Going To Default.
18. Moscow Times: Russia’s Top Diplomatic School in Turmoil Over Crimea Annexation.
19. RFE/RL: In The Wake Of Crimea Annexation, Patriotism Reigns In Russian Classrooms.
20. www.foreignpolicy.com: Edward Lozansky, Seriously, What Did You Expect Russia to Do? The view from Moscow and why the United States needs to reset its relations with the Kremlin, immediately.
21. Russia Direct: Russian experts divided over sanctions and Crimea. Think Tank Review: In March, Russian experts debated Russia’s role in Crimea, the future impact of Western sanctions and Russia’s troubling drift toward isolation
22. Interfax: Over half of Ukrainians aspire to sign EU-Ukraine Association Agreement – poll.
23. Reuters: FACTBOX – Costs and benefits from Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
24. Moscow Times: Georgy Bovtaspire, The High Price of Crimea.
25. Moscow Times: New Sanctions May Freeze South Stream Pipeline.
26. The National Interest: Elisabeth Brocking, Remember the CFE Treaty? The conventional arms control treaty that helped resolve the Cold War might be a good framework for the Ukraine crisis.
27. Moscow Times: Matthew Kott, Providing a Better Future for Ukraine and Europe.
28. Christian Science Monitor: US options to curb Russia on Ukraine: Boots on the ground in Poland?
29. Defensenews.com: US Official: In Key Ways, Russian Military is ‘Very Limited’
30. Newsweek.com: Owen Matthews and Bill Powell, As in the Cold War, Russia Is Vulnerable on Energy.
31. www.rt.com: De-invest from the West: Russia urges companies to return assets to the motherland.
32. The National Interest: James Clad and Robert A. Manning, Why We Can Play the Long Game on Russia.
33. Interfax: Death toll from winter Maidan riots reaches 105.
34. Interfax: No U.S. security forces in southeast Ukraine – Kyiv.
35. Moscow Times: Yulia Latynina, The Rise and Fall of Right Sector.
36. Stephen D. Shenfield: Ukraine: a change of view on the change of regime.
37. Sergei Roy: Response to Shenfield (JRL#77).
38. Antiwar.com: Vladimir Golstein, Crimea: Whose War Is It?
39. www.opendemocracy.net: Benedict Coleridge, Sochi, the Caucasus and Russian Romanticism.
40. Antiwar.com: Justin Raimondo, Retro-politics and the Return of the Cold War. Why go after ramshackle Russia? Because it’s there.
41. Levada.ru: Russians tend to support president’s wide powers – poll.
42. Interfax: Russian Econ Ministry revises 2014 GDP growth forecast down to 1.1%.
43. Interfax: Russian Econ Ministry revises capital outflow forecast up to $100 bln for 2014.
44. Wall Street Journal: Russian Capital Outflow Highest Since 2008.
45. Interfax: Russian law on NGOs as “foreign agents” ruled constitutional.
46. Moscow Times: Culture Ministry Affirms ‘Russia is not Europe’
47. Reuters: Russia says Gazprom, China close to gas agreement, hope to sign in May.
48. St. Petersburg Times: Conference Focuses on Unity. (Conference on “Strategic Priorities in the Economic Development of Russia and European Countries: Prospects for Integration”)
49. St. Petersburg Times: Researcher Says Nationalists in Cahoots with Authority. (Dmitry Dubrovsky)
50. Moscow Times What the Papers Say, April 9, 2014.
