RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#86 contents with links :: Wednesday 16 April 2014
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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#86 :: 16 April 2014
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1. Financial Times: Dmitri Trenin, Both empires will lose from this treacherous tussle. Russia neither needs nor intends to intervene militarily in Ukraine’s east.
2. Russia: Other Points of View: Patrick Armstrong, WIKI LEAKS AND THE SOUTH OSSETIA WAR.
3. Wall Street Journal: First Shots Rile Pro-Russian Crowds in Ukraine.
4. The Guardian: Troops fire as locals in Kramatorsk confront Ukraine general Vasily Krutov.
5. Reuters: Separatists fly Russian flag over Ukrainian armoured vehicles.
6. The Guardian: Ukraine crisis stirs resentment in birthplace of fugitive president.
7. The Irish Times: Donetsk’s pro-Russians ‘defending our people from fascists and the West’
8. www.thedailybeast.com: David Patrikarakos, Are East Ukraine’s Cops in Moscow’s Pocket? As the showdown looms between Kiev’s armed forces and the gunmen holding buildings in eastern Ukraine, the local police are caught in the middle-and leaning toward Moscow.
9. The Voice of Russia: Villagers stop armored column of Ukrainian troops near Lugansk.
10. www.rt.com: Those who don’t lay arms, will be destroyed – Ukrainian military op commander.
11. Interfax-Ukraine: Ukrainian MP proposes bill to enable elections under martial law.
12. Euromaidan PR: Battle line is less Russian vs Ukrainian – it’s criminal corruption vs hope for law and order.
13. Kyiv Post: Ukrainian troops in control of Donetsk Oblast’s Kramatorsk airfield, Ukrainian deputy prime minister says several hundred Russian troops in Ukraine.
14. www.rt.com: Anti-govt protesters seize Ukrainian APCs, army units ‘switch sides’
15. ITAR-TASS: Presidential candidates disagree over methods of struggle for Ukrainian unity.
16. Kyiv Post: Stefan Korshak, Finding reasons for optimism in Ukraine’s situation.
17. Interfax: Ukrainian communists condemn operation in eastern regions, call for decentralization referendum.
18. RIA Novosti: Moscow Dismisses Russia’s Alleged Threats to Invade Ukraine, Europe as Nonsense.
19. RIA Novosti: International Community Must Persuade Ukraine to Start Constitutional Reform – Lavrov.
20. AP: US backs Ukraine military action in east region.
21. www.moonofalabama.org: Obama Urges Ukraine’s Military To Not Get Involved (Two Months Ago).
22. www.thedailybeast.com: Here’s What the CIA Director Was Really Doing in Kiev. The head of the CIA just made a secretive journey to Ukraine-to do what, he won’t say. But the answer could change the power equation in the hottest of geopolitical hotspots.
23. RIA Novosti: NATO to Boost Military Presence in Baltic, Mediterranean.
24. The Heritage Foundation: Ukraine Takes Action to Quell Russian-Provoked Unrest.
25. Financial Times: Ukraine’s oligarchs accused of double dealing over separatism.
26. Interfax: West should help Ukraine’s economy, not give promises – Russian PM.
27. New York Times: Russia Is Quick to Bend Truth About Ukraine.
28. Time.com: Simon Shuster, Ukraine Is Not Ready for the Consequences of Taking Russia’s Military Bait. By sending its military to quell the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, the government in Kiev may be setting itself up for a spectacular defeat, as neither its army nor its intelligence services are prepared for a confrontation with Russia.
29. China Daily: Tom Plate, Ukraine a lesson for the West.
30. Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs: An Update from Ukraine. Interview with Nicolai Petro.
31. The Real News Network: Eastern Ukraine Lacks Political Representation in Kiev. Interview with Derek Monroe.
32. Australian Broadcasting Company: Russia believed to have plans to split Ukraine in three. (interview with Taras Berezovets, adviser to Yulia Tymoshenka)
33. Reuters: Poland: NATO should send troops to east Europe, ignore Russia’s objections.
34. The Daily Mail (UK): Edward Lucas, I hope I’m wrong but historians may look back and say this was the start of World War III.
35. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Putin Pushing World to Something Worse than Cold War, Piontkovsky Says.
36. The Voice of Russia: In Ukraine crisis, West is part of problem, not solution – analyst. (Dmitry Babich)
37. The Vineyard of the Saker: Ukraine SITREP April 15, 18:30 EST update 1 (Ukrainian civil war day 1).
38. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Interview by the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, in a special edition of the programme “Voskresny vecher s Vladimirom Solovyovim” on the “Russia 1” TV channel, Moscow, 11 April 2014.
