RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2015-#65 table of contents with links :: Johnson’s Russia List – Thursday April 2, 2015
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JRL 2015-#65 :: Thursday 2 April 2015
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Ukraine
1. AFP: Deadly Ukraine rocket strike another shot in propaganda war.
2. TASS: Both Ukrainian conflict sides ready to observe ceasefire – OSCE.
3. Interfax: Ukrainian Defense Ministry reports demobilization of over 24,000 servicemen.
4. Sputnik: In The Army, Now! Ukraine Officials Raid Dorms to Draft Students.
5. Valdai Discussion Club: Deescalating the Conflict in Ukraine. Interview with Rostislav Ishchenko, President of the Center for System Analysis and Forecasting.
6. New Eastern Europe: Matthew Turner, Ukraine’s Poroshenko Risking Stability?
7. Kyiv Post: Governor of Luhansk region accuses Aidar of terrorizing the region.
8. www.rt.com: Ukraine and Russia sign 3-month gas deal at $248.
9. Vice.com: Food Crisis in Eastern Ukraine: Russian Roulette (Dispatch 103) (Video)
10. Vice.com: Alec Luhn, Russian Soldiers Have Given Up Pretending They Are Not Fighting in Ukraine.
11. Ukraine Today: SBU’s Nalyvaichenko: Russian security services deploying headquarters in Donbas.
12. Fort Russ: Nalivaychenko to purge, reorganize SBU along OUN-UPA lines.
13. www.rt.com: Putin spokesman slams the Times ‘demonizing’ Russia over perceived nuclear threat.
14. Russia Insider: Alexander Mercouris, It’s Official – All Kiev’s Investigations of Maidan Crimes Deadlocked. Council of Europe report finds that official Ukrainian investigations into crimes committed during the Maidan protests are a total shambles and are going nowhere.
15. Kyiv Post: Alexei Bayer, The roots of Russia’s disdain for Ukraine.
16. The Kremlin Stooge: Mark Chapman, Alexei Bayer Dips a Toe Into the Gene Pool.
17. The Ukrainian Week: Stephen Blank, Adrift In Washington. The reasons for American inaction.
Russia
18. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Kremlin says Russians are drinking less and exercising more. Are they? Only to a degree, say analysts.
19. Russia Direct: Pavel Koshkin, The paradox of Kremlin propaganda: How it tries to win hearts and minds. With the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors and numerous Western journalists warning about the Kremlin’s propaganda, does it really pose a threat to the West?
20. Moscow Times: World Bank Predicts Sanctions Pain, Poverty Rise for Russia.
21. Bloomberg: Leonid Bershidsky, Russia Frees Itself From Oil’s Curse.
22. TASS: Russian economy performs better than expected.
23. www.project-syndicate.org: Andrei Kolesnikov, Why Sanctions on Russia Don’t Work.
24. Business New Europe: Iana Dreyer, Not all EU-Russia trade disputes are about politics.
25. Moscow Times: Experts: Putin’s New Ethnic Affairs Agency Aims to Thwart Political Threats.
26. TASS: Civil peace best response to western attempts to split Russian society – analysts.
27. RIA Novosti: Russian state will not clamp down on dissenters, senate speaker says.
28. AP Poll: Russia anti-gay views on rise; teachers face brunt.
29. Interfax: Russian church denies filing complaint against controversial opera.
30. New York Times: Russian Artists Face a Choice: Censor Themselves, or Else.
31. Moscow Times: John Freedman, Deeply Human Touch Brought to Erdman’s ‘The Suicide’
32. Interfax: Poll: Almost a quarter of Russians regard Stalin’s death as loss of leader, teacher.
33. Idea Lab (PBS): Russia Insider’s Plan to Target American Mainstream Media.
34. Institute of Modern Russia: Donald Jensen, Is There a Feud Over a New Tsar in the Kremlin?
35. Christian Science Monitor: A glimpse of US-Russia goodwill, through citizen dialogue. As the United States and Russia teeter toward a new cold war, an old forum for informal diplomacy – the Dartmouth Conference – is back in business.
36. Sarah Lindemann-Komarova: Earth Hour 2015 is over as spring thaw in Siberia begins…Natural Disaster Response in “Putin’s Russia”
