RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2015-#20 table of contents with links :: Thursday 5 February 2015
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JRL 2015-#20 :: Thursday 5 February 2015
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1. Interfax: Putin proposes bill on removing NGOs from foreign-agents list.
2. Sputnik: Shelling of Donetsk Intensifies.
3. Sputnik: Red Cross Committee Appalled by Shelling of Hospital in Eastern Ukraine.
4. Democracy Now: Is Ukraine a Proxy Western-Russia War? U.S. Weighs Arming Kiev as Violence Soars. (with Stephen Cohen)
5. Reuters: Obama’s Pentagon nominee suggests support for arming Ukraine.
6. Reuters: Russians present in Ukraine in specialist roles: U.S. envoy.
7. Wall Street Journal: David Kramer, On Military Aid to Ukraine, the Administration Zig-Zags.
8. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Press Digest: U.S. supply of arms to Kiev is ‘just a matter of time’
9. The Brookings Institution: Jeremy Shapiro, Why Arming the Ukrainians is a Bad Idea.
10. www.rt.com: Europe, not Russia pressured Kiev over EU association agreement – former Ukrainian PM.
11. TASS: Gaddafi’s fate was prepared for Yanukovych – Ukrainian former PM Azarov.
12. Interfax: Ukrainian ex-prime minister calls for new constitutional arrangement.
13. Sputnik: Russia Awaiting ‘New Revelations’ of US Role in Ukraine Coup.
14. The National Interest: Michael Kofman, How to Start a Proxy War with Russia. Arming the Ukrainian government would be a bad idea, no matter what the next defense secretary says.
15. Financial Times: Eugene Rumer and Thomas Graham, Arm Ukraine and you risk another Black Hawk Down.
16. Sic Semper Tyrannis: TTG, “U.S. Considers Supplying Arms to Ukraine Forces, Officials Say”
17. USA Today: Pentagon 2008 study claims Putin has Asperger’s syndrome.
18. Institute of Modern Russia: Donald Jensen, A Coup Against Putin?
19. Paul Goble: There are Alternatives to Putin and Not All of Them are in the Kremlin, Satarov Says.
20. Newsweek.com: Alexander Motyl, Russia: It’s Time for Regime Change.
21. The National Interest: James Carden, Nightmare or Necessity: Is It Time for Regime Change in Russia? Those who espouse regime change in Russia fail to take the next imaginative leap to consider what a destabilized Russia-with its vast arsenal of nuclear-weapons stockpiles-would mean for global security.
22. TASS: Russia builds up gold reserves to create safety net for economy – analysts.
23. Reuters: Sanctions hurt Russia, but still far from changing minds.
24. Russia Direct: How Ukraine has changed the way we think about international security. The new Russia Direct brief to be released on February 4 looks into the reasons why the post-Soviet space has become a new battleground between Russia and the West. In addition to describing how the world’s major powers view the conflict in Ukraine, the brief analyzes the main implications of the crisis for the international security system.
25. http://reconsideringrussia.org: Pietro Saharian, Do the Donbas Rebels Want to Establish an Overland Corridor to Crimea?
26. Vineyard of the Saker: Israel Shamir, Putin prefers a bad peace.
27. Russia Insider: Gilbert Doctorow, Federalism Will Not Solve the Ukraine Crisis. Federalism, which assumes unitary defense, unitary foreign policy and trade policy is a band-aid on a cancer that is plaguing Ukraine.
28. Fort Russ: J. Hawk, Peace, Victory, or Doomsday? Ukraine’s prospects for 2015.
29. www.rt.com: Neil Clark, ‘Ukraine’s economy in backwards drive, feeds tensions and discontent’
30. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Russia’s Abortion Rate Has Fallen Dramatically.
31. http://readrussia.com: Mark Adomanis, Russia: a Country Like Any Other.
