RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2015-#42 table of contents with links :: Tuesday 3 March 2015

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1. https://meduza.io: Watch this touching performance of ‘Gangnam Style’ by Russian rescue workers.

2. The Spectator (UK): Alex Massie, Vladimir Putin’s Russia is no longer just an authoritarian state; it is a dictatorship.

3. Newsweek.com: CIA Veterans Finger Putin in Nemtsov Assassination.

4. Reuters: Russians stand in line to mourn by coffin of slain Nemtsov.

5. Business New Europe: Ben Aris, OBITUARY: Nemtsov’s death and the opposition’s failure to change the regime.

6. Pando.com: Mark Ames, Boris Nemtsov: Death of a Russian Liberal.

7. Antiwar.com: Justin Raymond, Who Killed Boris Nemtsov? A verdict has already been reached – without evidence.

8. Russia Direct: Yuri Korgunyuk, Where to look for the killers of Boris Nemtsov? There are two important places to look for the party or parties who murdered Boris Nemtsov – the militants with combat experience in eastern Ukraine and revenge-minded Chechen leaders.

9. www.aljazeera.com: Alexander Nekrassov, The not-so-simple murder of Boris Nemtsov. Vladimir Putin had little reason to have Boris Nemtsov killed, let alone at the Kremlin’s doorstep.

10. Interfax: Nemtsov murder witness Durytska allowed to return to Ukraine, say Russian investigators.

11. RIA Novosti: Russian secret service cameras did not capture Nemtsov murder – spokesman.

12. Business New Europe: Graham Stack, Ukraine and rebels claim to have withdrawn heavy weapons from Donbas ceasefire line.

13. www.rt.com: OSCE confirms Donetsk & Lugansk militias withdrawing heavy weapons from contact line.

14. Moscow Times: Josh Cohen, Poroshenko’s Incompetence Lost Debaltseve.

15. The Nation: James Carden, Will the Murder of Boris Nemtsov Raise the Risk of Escalation in Ukraine? The opponents of the recently concluded Minsk agreement could use the murder as a pretext to derail the cease-fire accord.

16. Reuters: Blood near the Kremlin: Russia’s media fight back.

17. Democracynow.org: Noam Chomsky: After Dangerous Proxy War, Keeping Ukraine Neutral Offers Path to Peace with Russia.

18. Carnegie Moscow Center: How Will Nemtsov’s Murder Change Political Life in Russia?. (ALEXEY MALASHENKO and ULRICH SPECK)

19. Russia Direct: What does the Nemtsov murder mean for Russia’s political future? The murder of Boris Nemtsov, a prominent opposition activist and intransigent critic of the Kremlin, could have grave implications for both the Russian opposition and the authorities. (comments of experts)

20. Moscow Times: Analysts: Nemtsov Murder Won’t Consolidate Russian Opposition.

21. Financial Times: Nemtsov was casualty of a wider war. The EU must develop a strategy of integrating the former USSR, writes Grigory Yavlinsky.

22. Fort Russ/Kommersant: “Man on the Bridge”–The Comprehensive Guide to the Nemtsov Murder Investigation.

23. Russia Direct: Dominic Basalt, The Leviathan state vs. Boris Nemtsov. The brutal murder of Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov might be understood in the context of Russia’s controversial new Oscar-nominated film “Leviathan.”

24. Consortiumnews.com: Robert Parry, Playing Chicken with Nuclear War.

25. Russia Beyond the Headlines: War in Ukraine obstructing Russian economic recovery, say analysts.

26. CNBC.com: Guess what country’s energy sector is up 22%.

27. Business New Europe: bne:Chart – Russians’ latest reactions to Ukraine, sanctions and Putin.

28. BBC: Ukraine economy: MPs to vote on controversial reforms.

29. Reuters: Target of nation’s outrage, Ukraine central bank chief ploughs on.

30. Reuters: Russia ready to consider discount on gas price for Ukraine in Q2.

31. TASS: Ukrainian minister warns citizens against panic amid food shortages.

32. Business New Europe: Mark Adomanis, COMMENT: The Germans don’t want to bail out Ukraine.

33. The Diplomat: Huiyun Feng, China and Russia vs. the United States? Just how likely are China and Russia to ally against the U.S.?

34. New York Review of Books: Amy Knight, Russia: Another Dead Democrat.

35. Eric Kraus: Reflections on the murder of Boris Nemtsov.

36. Washington Post: What does Boris Nemtsov’s murder mean for Russia? (PONARS members)

37. Novaya Gazeta: Grigory Yavlinsky, A Conscious Choice?

38. Sergei Roy: Americans and Russians, Person-to-Person, with a Sidelight on Ukraine.

39. Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry: Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s address and answers to questions from students and attendees of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow, February 27, 2015. (with Q&A)

 

Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia Map of Commonwealth of Independent States, European Portion

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