RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2015-#94 table of contents with links :: Johnson’s Russia List – Monday, May 11, 2015

Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#94 :: Monday 11 May 2015
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RUSSIA

1. Kremlin.ru: “We pay tribute to all those who fought to the bitter for every street, every house and every frontier of our Motherland.” Speech at military parade on Red Square in Moscow to mark the 70th anniversary of Victory in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War.
2. Russian Pioneer: “Life Is Such a Simple, Yet Cruel Thing” by Vladimir Putin. President Putin pens recollection of his family’s experience during the Leningrad siege.
3. Kremlin.ru: Press statement and replies to journalists’ questions following talks with Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel.
4. New York Times: In Talks With Merkel, Putin Calls for Improving Relations With Europe.
5. Business New Europe: Ben Aris, MOSCOW BLOG: Building a fragile EM coalition.
6. Russia Insider: Gilbert Doctorow, Moscow’s Victory Day Parade: A New World Order on Full Display. After watching Moscow’s 70th anniversary Victory Day celebrations, it is clear that a very different new World Order is emerging from the rubble of the post-Cold War period.
7. The Vineyard of the Saker: Something truly amazing happened today.
8. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russian historian: Importance of Lend-Lease cannot be overestimated. History professor Oleg Budnitsky speaks with RBTH about the economic assistance the U.S. gave the USSR in WWII.
9. Reconsidering Russia and the Former Soviet Union: Pietro Shakerian, Five myths of the Soviet effort in World War II – debunked.
10. The Daily Telegraph (UK): Nick Holdsworth, Stalin ‘planned to send a million troops to stop Hitler if Britain and France agreed pact.’ Stalin was ‘prepared to move more than a million Soviet troops to the German border to deter Hitler’s aggression just before the Second World War’
11. Izvestia: Russian foundation presents sociological portraits of Putin majority. (Foundation for Development of Civil Society)
12. Politkom.ru: Pundit ponders challenges posed by “conservative trend” in Russia. (Tatyana Stanovaya)
13. www.thinkadvisor.com: Russian Economy Improves but Investors Staying Clear.
14. Gulf News: SAADALLAH AL FATHI, Europe ignores Russian gas to its disadvantage. Cost dynamics suggest the US cannot step in and become the favoured supplier.
15. China Times: Xi’s Moscow trip a risky move worth taking: People’s Daily.
16. The Unz Review: Translation: Xi Jinping – To Remember History, to Open the Future.
17. The Atlantic: MATT SCHIAVENZA, China and Russia Grow Even Closer. Xi Jinping’s appearance at Vladimir Putin’s side at the Victory Parade in Moscow signifies a deepened relationship based on a common adversary: the United States.
18. Sputnik: Russia to Launch US Comms Satellite Into Space.
19. Alaska Dispatch News: David Slayton and Lawson W. Brigham, Russia and US must maintain Arctic relations in an interconnected world.
20. Sputnik: Gerhard Schröder: US Tone Towards Russia is ‘Wrong and Dangerous’
21. Interfax: No decision made yet on Putin’s meeting with Kerry – Kremlin spokesman.
22. AFP: John Kerry to meet Putin in Sochi on Tuesday.
23. TASS: Moscow says it’s ready for dialogue with US on condition of no attempts of pressure.
24. The Motley Fool: Rich Smith, 15 Ways Moscow Has Changed in the 15 Years Since I Left Russia.

UKRAINE

25. Xinhua: Political dialogue only way out for Ukraine crisis: Putin.
26. Sputnik: Putin: Russia, Germany Differ in Assessing Coup in Ukraine.
27. www.rt.com: ‘No people there, only terrorists’: Pro-Kiev governor eyes cutting road transport with rebel areas.
28. https://medium.com: Zack Baddorf, This Is Life in Militia-Controlled Eastern Ukraine. Photographs behind the rebel lines of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
29. Interfax: Donetsk militias register 37 ceasefire breaches by Ukrainians, including artillery attacks.
30. Newsweek.com: Thanks to the police force, Kiev’s sex trade is booming.
31. Jerusalem Post: Report: Anti-Semitic vandalism spiked in Ukraine in 2014.
32. RFE/RL: EU Says No Visa Liberalization For Ukraine And Georgia.
33. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Honors for Ukrainian nationalists anger their victims – in Poland. Poles have joined critics in Moscow and eastern Ukraine in opposing a new Ukrainian law that would grant World War II-era nationalists an honored status. The nationalists killed tens of thousands of Poles during the war.
34. Salon.com: Patrick Smith, The New York Times does its government’s bidding: Here’s what you’re not being told about U.S. troops in Ukraine. U.S. troops are now operating openly in Ukraine. The “paper of record’s” “coverage” is an embarrassment, per usual.
35. New York Times: Battle Tested, Ukraine Troops Now Get U.S. Basic Training.
36. Sputnik: Bad Teacher: Right Sector Invites Ukrainian Armed Forces for Lessons.
37. The Daily Signal: Nolan Peterson, Two Weeks to Make a Soldier: A Ukrainian National Guard Unit Trains to ‘Fight to the Death’
38. AP: Ukraine president says almost 7,000 civilians killed in war.
39. Sputnik: Ukrainian Conflict Left up to 10,000 Civilians Dead – DPR.
40. RFE/RL: Nemtsov’s Report On Putin And Ukraine War Finally In Print, With A Little Help From His Friends.
41. Reuters: Special Report: Russian soldiers quit over Ukraine.
42. World Affairs: Alexander Motyl, The State of Ukraine. The following is an interview with Taras Kuzio.
43. Consortiumnews.com: Robert Parry, Enforcing the Ukraine ‘Group Think.’ (re Stephen Cohen)