RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#84 contents with links :: Monday 14 April 2014
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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#84 :: 14 April 2014
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1. ARD German television: Fatal shootings in Kiev: Who is responsible for the carnage from Maidan. (translation)
2. The Guardian: James Meek, Most Ukrainians are neither loyal Russians nor fascists. In the propaganda war between Putin and the west, the complexities of Ukraine, and its people’s interests, are ignored.
3. Financial Times: Andrew Jack, Many Ukrainians ‘will reject an anti-Russian nation’
4. Carnegie Moscow Center: Dmitri Trenin, Ukraine: Weekend Rendez-Vous With History.
5. RIA Novosti: ANALYSIS: Civil War Unlikely as Kiev Junta Loses Support.
6. Reuters: Separatist unrest spreads in Ukraine, no sign of military crackdown.
7. New York Times: Militants Defy Deadline Set by Ukraine to Stop Occupying Sites.
8. Financial Times: Russia’s ambitions in eastern Ukraine remain unclear.
9. RIA Novosti: Ukraine’s Interim Leader Hopes to Resolve Crisis in East Soon.
10. Kyiv Post: Turchynov blames Russia for organizing ‘terrorist troops’ in Ukraine’s eastern regions; vows military, police crackdown to free government buildings.
11. Euromaidan PR: President Turchynov’s address to the people of Ukraine.
12. Euromaidan PR: Police in eastern Ukraine controlled by Yanukovych, Lutsenko says.
13. Interfax-Ukraine: Ukrainian minister says Slovyansk “separatists” use civilians as “human shield”
14. ITAR-TASS: Ukraine reduces water supplies to Crimea by three times – Crimea’s first vice-premier.
15. Interfax-Ukraine: Ukraine says to prove on 17 April Russia behind separatism in eastern regions.
16. Interfax-Ukraine: Ukraine to seek new security guarantees from West – presidential frontrunner. (Petro Poroshenko)
17. Interfax: Lavrov warns Kyiv against using force in southeast Ukraine.
18. www.rt.com: Moscow not interested in destabilizing Ukraine – Lavrov.
19. The Voice of Russia: No obvious links between activists in Ukraine and Kremlin – CNN.
20. Interfax: Churkin: time to stop looking for hand of Moscow in Ukrainian events.
21. www.rt.com: Kiev must stop war on Ukrainians – Churkin.
22. Wall Street Journal: Ukraine Acting President: Not Opposed to Referendum on Regional Autonomy.
23. Interfax: Ekho Moskvy editor-in-chief protests against its correspondent not being allowed to enter Ukraine.
24. www.rt.com: Kiev prepares ‘armed provocations’ to discredit pro-federation forces, Russia.
25. Moscow Times: U.S. Sees Russia’s Hand in East Ukraine Unrest.
26. www.rt.com: Protest expands in eastern Ukraine as Kiev threatens military op.
27. www.rt.com: Ukraine on brink of civil war after blood was spilt in east – Yanukovich.
28. In Moscow’s Shadows: Mark Galeotti, Are Russian troops in eastern Ukraine? (Some, probably, but I don’t think that’s really the point)
29. Business New Europe: Mark Galeotti, Putin, Ukraine and asymmetric politics.
30. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Things In Eastern Ukraine Are Quickly Going From Bad To Worse.
31. Business New Europe: Chris Weafer, Ukraine-Russia: Headlines get worse but gas is the key indicator.
.32. Financial Times: Ukrainian businesses hit hard by Russian moves.
33. Interfax: Russia’s future lies with the East – deputy premier. (Dmitriy Rogozin)
34. BBC: Bridget Kendall, Muddying the waters in Ukraine.
35. Russia Direct: To fix Ukraine, fix the post-Cold War system. The Ukraine crisis is the strongest indication yet that the post-Cold War system of international relations needs a re-think. (Maxim Kharkevich)
36. Valdai Discussion Club/Izvestia: Sergei Karaganov, Time to End the Cold War in Europe.
37. http://reconsideringrussia.org: Pieetro Shakarian, How to Defuse the Ukraine Crisis.
38. Moscow Times: Vladimir Frolov, Crimea Helped Putin Hijack the Nationalists.
39. Russia Direct: Media, education the next victims in the US-Russian political face-off. The U.S.-Russia relationship is facing another setback as Russia has turned off the Voice of America and the American Councils, a U.S. education NGO, has been ordered to suspend its activity in Russia.
40. AP: Politics test California and Russian ties.
41. New York Times: Xenophobic Chill Descends on Moscow.
42. AP: Anti-Kremlin protest draws thousands in Moscow.
43. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Putin Propaganda on Ukraine Threatens to Destabilize Russia , Moscow Commentator Says. (Aleksey Roshchin)
44. History News Network: Walter Moss, The Folly of War: Europe 1914, Ukraine 2014.
45. The National Interest: Michael Kofman, Russia Can’t Afford to Lose.
46. Wall Street Journal editorial: Russia’s Second Invasion. Putin takes Obama’s ‘off-ramp’-inside Ukraine.
47. Wall Street Journal: Matthew Kaminski, The West Leaves Ukraine to Putin. As Russian special forces invade the country’s east, Kiev’s leaders feel betrayed by the EU and America.
48. The Weekly Standard: William Kristol, A Secret Fight over Russia in the Obama Administration.
49. www.thedailybeast.com: Obama Administration Preps New Sanctions Against Russia.
50. US Department of State: Evidence of Russian Support for Destabilization of Ukraine.
51. US Department of State: Douglas Frantz, Ukraine: Choosing Diplomacy Over Aggression.
52. US Department of State: Russian Fiction the Sequel: 10 More False Claims About Ukraine.
53 PennLive.com: With Russia tensions in the background, Pennsylvania National Guard members prepare for Europe.
