RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2015-#64 table of contents with links :: Johnson’s Russia List – Wednesday April 1, 2015

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Johnson’s Russia List
JRL 2015-#64 :: Wednesday, April 1, 2015
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Ukraine

1. Kyiv Post: International report finds numerous failures in Maidan murders investigation.
2. Facebook: Ivan Katchanovski, Maidan Snipers and Bulatov “crucifixion”
3. www.rt.com: Ukraine Interior Ministry was ‘uncooperative and obstructive’ in Maidan crimes probe – EU report.
4. Sputnik: Kiev Does Not Need the Truth About Maidan Shootings – German Newspaper.
5. Le Monde diplomatique: Robert Wade, The Ukraine crisis is not what it seems.
6. www.opendemocracy.net: Daniel Kennedy, How Russia’s opposition learned to stop worrying and love Crimea. A recent statement by a prominent Russian opposition figure is testament to an unpalatable truth: Crimea’s annexation is popular with Russia’s ‘liberal elite.’
7. www.rt.com: Russian PM seals gas discount for Ukraine of up to 26%.
8. Business New Europe: Putin approves three-month extension of Ukraine’s gas discount.
9. Voice of America: Eastern Ukraine’s Children Fall Prey to War.
10. AFP: Russia steps in as job losses, closures ravage east Ukraine.
11. Asia Times: Pepe Escobar in eastern Ukraine: Howling in Donetsk.
12. Moscow Times: Josh Cohen, Russia Has Ukraine’s Economy in a Choke Hold.
13. Business New Europe: Fight between Ukraine’s govt and oligarchs embroils largest lender Privatbank.
14. TASS: Over half of Ukrainian draftees unfit for military service – Poroshenko Bloc.
15. TASS: Ukraine’s Right Sector nationalists seek to form separate brigade for warfare in Donbas.
16. TASS: Kiev launches investigation into Aidar battalion’s crimes.
17. AP: US forces to hold exercises in Ukraine.
18. Bloomberg: Belarus Leader Urges U.S. Involvement in Ukraine Peace Process.
19. Defense One: Here’s When the Next Incursion Into Ukraine Could Happen. (Wesley Clark)
20. Interfax-Ukraine: Nalyvaichenko says all terrorist attacks in Ukraine coordinated by Russian special forces.
21. Newsweek.com: Russia Launches Next Deadly Phase of Hybrid War on Ukraine.

Russia

22. TASS: Russia’s political landscape is changing but not radically yet.
23. AP: Former Putin allies question his political course.
24. Washington Post: Brandon Valeriano and Ryan C. Maness, Russia – perhaps more restrained and less powerful than you think?
25. Moscow Times: Fear Makes People Support Putin, But They Will Demand More – Experts.
26. Paul Goble: Russians Identify with Putin to Cope with Unpredictability He Causes, Moscow Psychologist Says.
27. Interfax: Spokesman sings praises to Putin at forum reviewing 15 years of his rule.
28. Sputnik: Russians’ Attitudes Toward Putin Are Changing, And Not How You Might Think.
29. True Economics: Constantin Gurdgiev, Two Pesky Facts and Russian ‘Liberal Democracy’ Dream.
30. Moscow Times: Kudrin to Putin: Use Your Popularity to Save Russia’s Economy.
31. TASS: Russia’s non-systemic opposition to field single list of candidates in 2016 polls.
32. TASS: Economic protests in Russia quite likely but not political ones – think tank.
33. Levada.ru: Growing number of Russians say Stalin’s policies “justified” by “great results”
34. www.rt.com: Activists decry Russians’ increasing sympathy for Stalin.
35. TASS: Main suspect in Nemtsov murder withdraws confession, says he has alibi.
36. RAPSI: Nemtsov murder suspect pleads guilty, testifies against other defendants.
37. Interfax: Witness to Nemtsov murder to be summoned for police lineup – newspaper.
38. Moskovskiy Komsomolets: Journalist: Moscow authorities should let “Nemtsov Bridge” memorial stay.
39. www.rt.com: Worst over for Russian economy, time to talk success – economists.
40. Moscow Times: Only 2% of Russians Concerned Over Ruble’s Collapse – Poll.
41. TASS: Russia’s economy will stagnate in coming 5 years – ex-minister. (Kudrin)
42. Business New Europe: CONFERENCE CALL: Russia improves – but don’t get too carried away yet.
43. Reuters: World Bank sees protracted recession in Russia.
44. AFP: Climate change: Russia sketches emissions cut of up to 30%
45. AP: American farmer among the winners in sanctions-hit Russia.
46. RAPSI: Top managers of Russian state-owned companies won’t reveal income publicly.
47. Gazeta.ru: Russian website: events in Ukraine putting Russian nationalists under pressure.
48. www.opendemocracy.net: Victoria Hudson, The Russian Orthodox Church under Patriarch Kirill. Under Patriarch Kirill, the Russian Orthodox Church has become an integral element of the hegemonic narrative that has been created in Putin’s Russia, to inoculate the country from pernicious outside influences.
49. Global Times: Dmitri Trenin, Bureaucracy and corruption stand in way of Russia’s shift to Asia.
50. Kremlin.ru: Message at the start of Russia’s presidency of the BRICS group.
51. TASS: Russia charts new course for BRICS nations as presidency begins.
52. Der Spiegel: Christian Neff, Fortress of Nationalism: Russia Is Losing Its Political Morals.
53. Newsweek.com: Putin is ‘Playing the Madman’ to Trick the West.

 

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