Tag: Newslinks
NEWSLINK The National Interest/Thomas Graham: “Russia’s Syria Surprise (And What America Should Do about It)”
[featured image is file photo] “Russian pride will not allow Moscow to join a U.S.-led coalition, but we should be able to work in parallel, coordinating air strikes and other actions for maximum effect in degrading ISIS.”
» Read moreNEWSLINK Moscow Times/Andre Rogger: Giving Russia’s Artistic Talent a Helping Hand
NEWSLINK The National Interest/ Nikolas K. Gvosdev: “Moscow’s Moves in Syria: 5 Messages Russia Is Sending to the World”
NEWSLINK National Public Radio (NPR): As Warm Days Wane In Moscow, An ‘Air Of Desperate Celebration’
NEWSLINK Washington Post/Lawrence Summers: “Why Ukraine’s debt deal is important not just for Ukraine, but for the West”
NEWSLINK New York Times: “Why Russians Hate America. Again.”
NEWSLINK Sarah Lindemann-Komarova: “Running for Office in Siberia: Part VI: The Home Stretch. A series on the District #35 Election for Novosibirsk City Council”
NEWSLINK Kyiv Post: Russians at YES conference say Russia’s economic weakness likely makes it less threatening [Yevgenia Albats and Vladimir Inozemtsev]
NEWSLINK Time magazine: Inside Vladimir Putin’s Circle. The dangerous rise of Kremlin hard-liners
NEWSLINK The National Interest: Russia’s Financial System: How Vulnerable? Collapse is not in the cards. [Sergey Aleksashenko]
NEWSLINK The Economist: Russia’s opposition. Lonely but not lost. A Russia after Putin is hard to imagine right now but one man is trying. [Alexei Navalny]
NEWSLINK Christian Science Monitor: Georgia ex-President Saakashvili makes play to be prime minister – in Ukraine
Mikheil Saakashvili came to Ukraine to be Odessa’s governor at President Poroshenko’s request. But now he’s picking a very public fight with PM Yatsenyuk.
» Read moreNEWSLINK Kyiv Post: When will life get better in Ukraine? Soon, Poroshenko says.
NEWSLINK New York Times/David Brooks: “The Russia I Miss”
NEWSLINK Sarah Lindemann-Komarova: Running for Office in Siberia: Part V: Let the Games Begin A series on the District #35 Election for Novosibirsk City Council
NEWSLINK Reuters: Why do Vladimir Putin and his Kremlin cronies look so nervous?
NEWSLINK Washington Post: Mr. Putin makes moves in Syria, exploiting America’s inaction
NEWSLINK Wall Street Journal: The Rewards of the Obama Doctrine. Offering a helping hand to America’s enemies in Iran, Russia and Cuba will ruin lives and many more will die.
NEWSLINK Christian Science Monitor: No flowers for teacher on the first day? Russians feel the pinch. School costs – uniforms, notebooks, gym clothes – are soaring in recession-hit Russia, and pupils and parents are griping over the unwelcome changes in their classrooms
NEWSLINK Kyiv Post: Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute shapes US view on Ukraine
NEWSLINK Wall Street Journal: Russia Says Economy Recovery Slow in Coming; Finance Ministry predicts return to growth only late this year or early next
NEWSLINK Interfax-Ukraine: New military doctrine calls Russia Ukraine’s military adversary, stipulates NATO membership
NEWSWLINK Christian Science Monitor: Amid violence in Kiev, Ukraine tries to find a ‘decentralized’ peace
Ukraine’s parliament took a first step toward granting powers to rebel regions. But deadly clashes in the capital show the depth of resistance to such changes.
» Read moreNEWSLINK Reuters: Big guns in east Ukraine fall silent, two more die from wounds in Kiev protests
NEWSLINK Reuters: Russia’s biggest air show hurt by economic crisis, sanctions
NEWSLINK New York Times: “Svetlana Boym, 56, Scholar of Myth and Memory, Dies”
NEWSLINK Moscow Times/ Mark Galeotti: Museums Show Russia’s Big Security Problem
NEWSLINK Kyiv Post: “Khaki lies”
NEWSLINK Reuters: “Russia, NATO need new rules to cut risk of war, ex-ministers say”
NEWSLINK Foreign Policy Magazine/ Taras Kuzio: Money Still Rules Ukraine. President Poroshenko talks big about reform – but he’s missing what may be his only chance to break the power of the oligarchs.
NEWSLINK AFP: EU-Russia ties at new low ahead of Ukraine talks
NEWSLINK Al Jazeera: Ukraine: Going underground to escape the conflict. Short on funds and wary of looters, many are sheltering in basements in the warzone – and paying an emotional price.
NEWSLINK Moscow Times/Vladimir Ryzhkov: Putin Has Russians’ Loyalty, But for How Long?
NEWSLINK Kiev Post: For second year, Ukrainians celebrate Independence Day amid Russia’s war
NEWSLINK Asia Times/Sergei Blagov: “Russia takes hard-line stance on territorial dispute with Japan.”
NEWSLINK The National Interest/Mathew Burrows, Robert A. Manning: “America’s Worst Nightmare: Russia and China Are Getting Closer. Will an inverted U.S.-China-Russia triangle reshape the world order?”
NEWSLINK Moscow Times/Judy Dempsey: NATO Is Unprepared for Conflict With Russia.
NEWSLINK New York Times: “A Russian Soldier Story”
NEWSLINK The Atlantic Council: “We want Ukraine to be a European country, not a Putin country,” Says Ukrainian MP.
NEWSLINK The Conversation: Bad news for Putin as support for war flags beyond Russia’s ‘troll farms’
NEWSLINK NBC News: Russia’s Sanctions War Against the West Explained.
NEWSLINK Human Rights in Ukraine: “We are faced with a threat to the very existence of the Crimean Tatar People”
NEWSLINK Los Angeles Times: “White supremacist gathering underscores Russia’s nationalist trend”
NEWSLINK Kyiv Post: Ukraine approaches Independence Day on Aug. 24 with warnings of new Russian-led attacks.
NEWSLINK NBC News: Russia’s Space Program in Crisis After Decades of Brain Drain, Neglect.
NEWSLINK Euromaidan Press: Russia’s policy: ignore citizens and intimidate neighbors.
NEWSLINK Reuters: ‘Putin the Polite,’ chilling hero of Russian souvenirs.
NEWSLINK Daily Telegraph (UK): Russian summer madness.
In a letter from Moscow, Roland Oliphant writes of disappearing pavements, vanishing food and holidaying citizens.
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