RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2015-#38 table of contents with links :: Thursday 26 February 2015

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JRL 2015-#38 :: Thursday 26 February 2015
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1. Science: Mysterious Indo-European homeland may have been in the steppes of Ukraine and Russia.
2. The Calvert Journal: Michael Idov, Pastime paradise. The story of the Cold War told through the birth of Soviet consumerism.
3. Reuters: Ukraine begins artillery withdrawal, recognizing truce is holding.
4. www.rt.com: Ukraine military has begun heavy weapons withdrawal – military spokesman.
5. Sputnik: Donetsk Withdraws 90% of Heavy Weaponry From Line Of Contact – DPR Leader.
6. Bloomberg: Ukraine Risks Losing IMF Support for Aid If War Escalates.
7. Reuters: NATO General Says Ukraine Crisis Gets Worse Every Day.
8. Interfax: Russia expects “responsible approach” from Ukraine to constitutional reform.
9. Interfax: Kyiv stepping up DPR economic blockade – Pushilin.
10. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Moscow, Kiev locked into another gas dispute – who pays rebels’ bills. Russia is threatening to turn off the taps, claiming that Kiev needs to pay for the gas that Russia’s Gazprom is directing to rebel-held eastern Ukraine. Europe’s own gas supplies could be affected if a shutdown occurs.
11. www.rt.com: ‘Ukraine-UAE arms deal strengthens Kiev’s hand in future negotiations’
12. Russia Direct: The US is one step from escalating the conflict in Ukraine. RD Interview: The Ukraine conflict is much more dangerous than any of the other conflicts in the post-Soviet space, says Thomas de Waal of the Carnegie Endowment, because of the risk that it could become a proxy war.
13. CNN.com: Putin aide predicts relations ‘renaissance…if Russian ‘national interests’ respected. (Dmitry Peskov)
14. Le Monde diplomatique: Igor Delanoe, Ukraine’s impossible future. Between war and peace. Despite two sets of accords, fighting hasn’t yet stopped between Ukraine and the Russian-backed self-proclaimed republics. Even if a ceasefire could be enforced, the economic and social problems are huge.
15. Sky News: One year after annexation Crimea backs Russia.
16. Reuters: West’s offer to rebuild Ukraine faces reality check.
17. The National Interest: Harry J. Kazianis, Russia Could Make China King of the South China Sea. America should think twice about arming Ukraine as Russia could easily help China achieve its dreams in the South China Sea.
18. Interfax: Putin’s job approval rating reaches 86 percent.
19. Moscow Times: Vladimir Ryzhkov, The Absurd World of Russian Public Opinion.
20. RFE/RL: ‘Propaganda Bullhorn’ Or ‘Alternative Perspective’? U.S. Students Put Kremlin-Funded RT Under Microscope.
21. TASS: CNN wins new accreditation for Russian airwaves.
22. www.rt.com: For propaganda & ‘democracy promotion’: State Dept seeks budget to counter RT.
23. www.rt.com: Editorial, More money, more problems?
24. Russia Direct: Russia is now monitoring the world’s mass media for bias. The Russian Institute for Strategic Studies introduced its first-ever World Mass Media Hostility Index, which measures potential anti-Russian bias in the media publications of different countries, and then assigns each country an overall score.
25. Salon.com: Patrick Smith, Our embarrassing, servile media: Does the New York Times just print everything the government tells it? The paper of record is carrying Washington’s water in its Ukraine reporting — all too believing, once again.
26. Moscow Times: Experts See Dark Plot in Spate of Mystery Bombings in Ukraine.
27. Channel One TV (Moscow): Russian TV show suggests Ukraine security services behind Kharkiv blast.
28. Le Monde diplomatique: Laurent Geslin and Sébastien Gobert, Ukraine’s energy dilemma. With fighting drawing closer to a nuclear plant, Ukraine wants to source some of its nuclear fuel from the West, and become less dependent on Russian policy and influence.
29. www.rt.com: No Solidarity as opposition split over licensed Spring March in Moscow.
30. Reuters: Russian assets boosted by oil price rally, Ukraine peace moves.
31. Interfax: Russia’s dependence on oil prices may threaten national security – official.
32. TASS: Analysts: Russia should keep Moody’s rating in mind but rely on other agencies.
33. Gazeta.ru: Russian website explores ex-minister’s rumoured return to cabinet. (German Gref)
34. Moscow Times: Q&A: Are Top Executives Fleeing Russia, And Does it Matter?
35. The National Interest: Akhilesh Pillalamarri, Oil Prices Collapsed. Russia Won’t. Russian energy companies will be able to weather the tumultuous storm.
36. Interfax: U.S. State Dept bans govt bodies from cooperating with Russia on climate issues.
37. http://newcoldwar.org: Pedro Marin, Euromaidan: One year after the coup in Kiev.
38. Quartz: Linda Kinstler, MAIDAN MELANCHOLY Ukrainians don’t trust the government they fought for.
39. Euromaidan Press: Managing Putin and building Ukraine. (interview with Ukrainian journalist Vitaliy Portnikov)
40. Reuters: Fiona Hill, Hybrid war: The real reason fighting stopped in Ukraine – for now.
41. Sputnik: Stratfor’s Global Forecast Report Torn to Bits by International Analysts.
42. www.foreignaffairs.com: Rolf Mützenich, Rapprochement Reloaded. Why Détente with Russia is not Appeasement.
43. Le Monde diplomatique: Jens Malling, The value of a frozen conflict. Transnistria would love to join Russia, but Russia doesn’t welcome that. It wants the not-quite independent territory to stay as it is, causing trouble for Moldova and keeping it out of the EU and NATO.
44. TASS: Will Georgia’s looming crisis impair relations with Russia?
45. Sputnik: Saakashvili, a Wanted Man at Home, Lobbies Washington for Arms for Ukraine.

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