RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2015-#42 table of contents with links :: Tuesday 3 March 2015
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 Business New Europe: Graham Stack, Ukraine and rebels claim to have withdrawn heavy weapons from Donbas ceasefire line.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)
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)