RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2015-#72 table of contents with links :: Johnson’s Russia List – Monday, April 13, 2015
Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#72 :: Monday 13 April 2015
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RUSSIA
1. www.rt.com: Patriarch Kirill addresses Russian Orthodox believers on Easter Sunday.
2. Interfax: Great feast of Easter brings joy and hope to millions of Christians – Putin.
3. History News Network: Walter Moss, Vladimir Putin: History Man?
4. Euromaidan Press/Colta.ru: The country of triumphant resentment: Yampolskiy on Russia’s loss of reality.
5. Radix: Vincent Law, THE IDEOLOGY OF UNITED RUSSIA.
6. Moskovskiy Komsomolets: Russian government planning “logical” structural changes to aid business.
7. Reuters: Russia’s Middle Class Reluctant to Blame Putin for Economic Downturn.
8. Moscow Times: Millions of Russians Edge Toward Poverty as Economic Pressure Mounts.
9. Washington Post: Matt O’Brien, Russia’s shocking rebound: The ruble has climbed 34 percent in just two months.
10. Moscow Times: Russian Capital Flight Slows to $32.6 Billion in First Quarter.
11. Interfax: Almost all net capital outflow from Russia in Q1 due to debt payments – CBR.
12. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Russian leading expert looks at consequences of economic crisis. (Yevgeniy Yasin)
13. Moscow Times/Vedomosti: Boris Grozovsky, Politics, Not Oil, Will Make or Break the Ruble.
14. Business New Europe: “Croneyburger please, easy on the austerity”: Inside Russia’s fast-food farce.
15. Moscow Times: Despite Recession, Russians’ Support for Space Program High as Ever.
16. Vedomosti: Experts skeptical of report blaming Russian hackers for attacks on White House.
17. Interfax: No incidents occur during U.S. reconnaissance plane’s intercept by Russian fighter.
18. www.rt.com: Sweden confirms mystery ‘Russian sub’ was in fact a workboat.
19. Sputnik: What Would A Clinton Presidency Mean for Relations With Russia?
20. National Public Radio: New START Nuke Deal With Russia May Be Aging – But It’s Not Over.
21. Russia Beyond the Headlines: TROIKA REPORT: Greece gambles in Moscow, crunch time for Yemen, and the awakening of Iran.
22. TASS: Russia-led military bloc worried over escalation of frozen conflicts in post-Soviet space.
23. Russia Direct: Galiya Ibragimova, Does the Eurasian Economic Union have a future? Six experts from the post-Soviet space weigh in on whether the ambitious integration project – the Eurasian Economic Union, which Russia relentlessly promotes – makes economic and political sense for their nations.
24. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Anton Tsvetov, Vietnam’s balancing act: Can Russia adapt to change? It’s time to consider if there is anything that Russia can offer Vietnam that others can’t.
UKRAINE
25. Interfax-Ukraine: Ukraine played ‘enormous’ role in defeating Nazism – president.
26. Central European Policy Institute: CEPI Ukraine Watch. Week of April 4-10. (partial text)
27. Russia Insider: Confirmed by Kiev: Right Sector Launches Offensive against DPR.
28. Reuters: Violence escalates in east Ukraine ahead of talks.
29. Business New Europe: S&P downgrades Ukraine to ‘CC’, says default ‘virtually inevitable’
30. Sputnik: Dropping Like Flies: 46 Ukrainian Banks Go Bankrupt in Course of One Year.
31. The Guardian: ‘The west is wrong to write off Ukraine’s debts.’ It’s easy to feel sorry for a country crippled by war and corruption – but dismissing past debts is not the way to help, say Alexander Lebedev and Vladislav Inozemtsev.
32. Paul Goble: Ukraine’s Domestic Problems Could Spark New Protests if War Ends, Kyiv Economist Says
33. International Business Times: Inna Shevchenko, Ukraine’s Communism ban will fuel Nazi propaganda and far-right support.
34. Russia Insider: Alexander Mercouris, Is Yatsenyuk on The Way Out?
35. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, Goodbye Lenin.
36. The Economist: Eastern Ukraine. In the fold. Ukraine’s second city shows no risk of rebelling, but it is far from secure.
37. Moscow Times: Vladimir Frolov, U.S. Must Step Up and Help Out on Ukraine.
38. www.rt.com: French military intelligence rules out ‘Russian invasion plans’ for Ukraine.
39. Russia Insider: Mark Chapman, Kremlin Troll Army Myth Deconstructed. Anyone arguing against stereotyping of Russia, its leader and its policies, who substantiates his or her argument with solid reasoning and historical or contemporary fact, must be paid by the Russian government.
40. Chatham House: Orysia Lutsevych, Ukraine’s Oligarch Gambit.
41. www.opendemocracy.net: Victoria Narizhna, Team Kolomoisky. It’s easy to make misleading conclusions when it comes to Team Kolomoisky – if you don’t know Dnipropetrovsk from the inside.
42. Dances With Bear: John Helmer, A GOOD NIGHT’S REST IN CLEVELAND, OHIO – IGOR KOLOMOISKY HAS BEEN SECRETLY INVESTING IN MIDWEST REAL ESTATE, AND IN KENTUCKY, TEXAS, FLORIDA TOO.
43. The Vineyard of the Saker: Dagmar Henn, Desacrated shrines.
44. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Senior Russian judge claims legal justification for Crimea annexation. (Valeriy Zorkin) [DJ: This long article may be required reading. Substantive responses welcome.]
