RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2015-#58 table of contents with links :: Tuesday 24 March 2015
Johnson’s Russia List JRL 2015-#58 :: Tuesday 24 March 2015
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1. New York Review of Books: Tim Judah, Ukraine: Divided and Bitter.
2. The Kremlin Stooge: Mark Chapman, Oh Lord, Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood. (re Michael McFaul)
3. Moskovskiy Komsomolets: US sanctions against Moscow seen as well-considered, long-term policy. (Mikhail Rostovskiy)
4. TASS: US puts spokes in Ukrainian settlement’s wheel.
5. Newsweek.com: Rebels in Ukraine ‘Not Russia’s Puppets’, Says Putin Aide.
6. Business New Europe: Ben Aris, Russia needs Ukraine fix as its power hits post-Soviet peak.
7. Levada.ru: Russian public approval of Crimea annexation remains strong – poll.
8. The National Interest: Matthew Dal Santo, Punishing Russia: The Dangers of the ‘Mariupol Test’
9. http://gordonhahn.com: Gordon Hahn, Were the Nemtsov Murder Suspects ‘Tortured’?
10. Vox.com: Amanda Taub, We just got a glimpse of how oligarch-funded militias could bring chaos to Ukraine.
11. Wall Street Journal: Ukraine Government Tries to Rein In Oligarch Ally. Tycoon Ihor Kolomoisky helped stop Russia-backed rebels last year, now skirmishes with Kiev over businesses.
12. Sputnik: Ukrainian Parliament May Check Yatsenyuk for Corruption.
13. Fort Russ: How to talk like Kolomoisky and the war of the oligarchs.
14. The Interpreter: Paul Goble, Ukrainians Fear Russia But Don’t Trust EU.
15. Moscow Times: Mark Adomanis, Crisis Is Killing Russia’s Demographic Recovery.
16. Russia Insider: Jon Hellevig, Russia’s Economy Is Holding up Well, but It’s the Inflation, Stupid! There is no economic crisis, but rather a receding financial crisis.
17. Business New Europe: Timothy Ash, BOOK REVIEW: “Mr Putin: Operative in the Kremlin” – an updated version.
18. Alternet.org: Adam Johnson, NATO’s Creepy New Plan to Infiltrate Twitter and Facebook. NATO has announced that “countering false Russian narratives on social media” is a major priority.
19. www.rt.com: Neil Clark, Anti-Russian propaganda is ‘unconvincing’, because Western narrative is false.
20. The Unz Review: Karel van Wolferen, NATO and the Two Central Conflicts of the Ukraine Crisis.
21. Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs: Nicolai Petro, Russia’s Orthodox Soft Power.
22. Paul Grenier: A Conservative Russia? This Means War! (The Tragedy of American Ideology)
23. Russia in Global Affairs: Sergei Karaganov, Europe: A Defeat at the Hands of Victory? Demons of the Past and the Search for a New Concept.
