RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2015-#60 table of contents with links :: Johnson’s Russia List – Thursday 26 March 2015

Johnson’s Russia List JRL 2015-#60 :: Thursday 26 March 2015
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RUSSIA

1. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Brighter future beckons for Russians with Down’s syndrome.
2. Russia Beyond the Headlines: HIV is not grounds for deportation, says Russia’s Constitutional Court.
3. Kremlin.ru: Ceremony awarding prizes for young cultural professionals and for works for children.
4. Kremlin.ru: Meeting with young scientists.
5. Kremlin.ru: Meeting with President of WorldSkills International Simon Bartley.
6. www.rt.com: To change the situation for the better we must make Russia stronger – Putin to FSB.
7. Russia & India Report: Moscow State University may become another Russian “Silicon Valley”
8. Business New Europe: Ben Aris, MOSCOW BLOG: New team on the way?
9. Moscow Times: Uproar in Murmansk as Teachers’ Salaries Withheld Amid Economic Crisis.
10. Moscow Times: Health Care Workers to Hunger-Strike in Protest of Labor Conditions.
11. TASS: Russian health reform: strategy is right but tactic sometimes fails.
12. http://readrussia.com: Chris Miller, Pensions Under Threat as Government Looks for Funds.
13. Reuters: Russian rouble gains on oil and weaker dollar.
14. Interfax: Effect of ruble strengthening nearly neutral for Russian budget – Nesterenko.
15. Moscow Times: Ruble Panic Recedes as Russians Start Selling Dollars.
16. Reuters: No signs Russia might leave WTO, director general says.
17. TASS: Amnesty on capital is good news, but yield may prove lower than expected.
18. Bloomberg: Russia Sets Terms for Capital Amnesty to ‘Correct Past Mistakes’
19. Business New Europe: Mark Adomanis, Russia’s economy in 2015 – more resilient than expected.
20. http://russeurope.hypotheses.org: Jacques Sapir, Russia coming out of the crisis.
21. www.foreignpolicy.com: Debora Spar, Should Putin Let the Ruble Bottom Out? The Russian president is just the latest in a long line of national leaders with a sentimental, ill-fated attachment to propping up their countries’ currencies.
22. Bloomberg: The Central Banker Who Saved the Russian Economy From the Abyss. (Elvira Nabiullina)
23. Russia in Global Affairs: Martin Gilman, The Russian Economy: Resilience But for How Long? Sanctions and Oil Prices Are Not the Be-All.
24. Forbes.com: Jude Clemente, How Much Energy Does Russia Have Anyways?
25. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, THE YELTSIN TAX RETURNS TO RUSSIAN POLITICS – WAGE ARREARS RISE, PUTIN SUPPORT DECLINES.
26. Interfax: Russia licenses CNN broadcaster.
27. Moscow Times: Wagner Opera Scandal Reflects Deep Divide in Russian Society.
28. www.opendemocracy.net: Ekaterina Loushnikova, Interview with a murderer. There are currently 59,000 women in Russian penal establishments. For many of them prison is not so much a punishment, more a way of life.
29. www.rt.com: ‘EU has very poor capability in terms of understanding Russia’s concerns.’ (interview with Lord Peter Truscott)
30. The Unz Review: Anatoly Karkin, The Nazi Gap.

UKRAINE

31. Journalitico: Danielle Ryan, The Western “free” press and how it enables and encourages ignorance. (re Andrei Babitsky)
32. Interfax-Ukraine: Poroshenko says separatism needs to be ‘nipped in the bud’
33. TASS: Kiev forces move 30 units of military hardware towards Donetsk – DPR agency.
34. TASS: RF insists on Kiev’s dialogue with Donetsk, Lugansk, Ukraine says there is no point in it.
35. Interfax: Nearly 20% would vote for Poroshenko in presidential elections – poll.
36. Interfax: Lavrov: Kyiv may resort to provocation in Donbas to get arms from abroad.
37. Carnegie Moscow Center: Balázs Jarábik, Ukraine: The Kingdom of the Oligarchs.
38. Vedomosti: Russian paper reports analysts’ take on Ukraine tycoon row.
39. Kyiv Post: Reznychenko, Kolomoisky’s successor in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, seen as close to Poroshenko.
40. Interfax: Pressure on Kolomoyskyi U.S. attempt to create centralized Ukraine with strong anti-Russian govt – Duma deputy.
41. www.businessinsider.com: Ukraine’s whole banking system is falling apart.
42. TASS: Some 10,000 miners go on strike in western Ukraine.
43. Interfax-Ukraine: Yatsenyuk says Ukrainians must choose NATO membership through referendum.
44. Sputnik: Ukraine in NATO? ‘Unnecessary and Harmful’ – Brzezinski.
45. Voice of America: In Shattered Ukraine Town, Residents Rebuild Lives.
46. Deutsche Welle: The woman who leads a rebel Ukraine army unit.
47. Real Clear World: Sergei Lyovochkin, The Right Peace for Ukraine.
48. E-International Relations: Ivan Katchanovski, Crimea: People and Territory before and after Annexation.
49. Sputnik: Pentagon ‘Wall of Silence’ Will Not Solve Ukraine Crisis – Russian Embassy.

 

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