Tag: Newslinks
NEWSLINK New York Times: “Putin vs. Parmesan”
NEWSLINK AP: Alaska village seeks to reunite with Russian relatives
NEWSLINK Reuters: Ukraine leader looks to summit with Germany, France, to curb Russian ‘aggression’
NEWSLINK The Calvert Journal: Stars set to boycott Russian radio station
NEWSLINK The Calvert Journal: Russia bans Reddit pages over drug discussion
NEWSLINK Reuters: Ukraine shifts closer to open war with recent attacks.
NEWSLINK Calvert Journal: Moscow bus drivers officially required to be polite
NEWSLINK The National Interest/Dmitry Gorenburg: This Is How the Russian Military Plans to Fight Future Wars
Russia is actively seeking out areas of relative strength to compensate for its military’s overall weakness.
» Read moreNEWSLINK Christian Science Monitor: A return to war in Ukraine? Kiev, rebels trade accusations of buildup.
Both Ukraine’s government and its rebel provinces have rebuilt their militaries, raising the stakes should the latest violence turn into all out combat.
» Read moreNEWSLINK New York Times: Inflation Robs Russians of Buying Power
NEWSLINK Reuters: Rise of new banks helps Kremlin keep Russia’s economy afloat
NEWSLINK Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs/Nicolai Petro: Bringing Ukraine Back Into Focus: How to End the New Cold War and Provide Effective Political Assistance to Ukraine.
NEWSLINK Belarus Digest/David Marples, Uladzimir Padhol: “Lukashenka’s 2015 Election Strategy”
NEWSLINK Kyiv Post: Mobilization wave comes up 13,000 men short. Experts blamed a fall in patriotism in Ukraine for the failure of the sixth mobilization
NEWSLINK Financial Times/ John Thornhill: Fear Vladimir Putin’s weakness not his strength/ It would be rash to equate the president with Russia and declare new cold war.
NEWSLINK Atlantic Council/Brian Mefford: Ukraine’s Fall Elections Matter More Than You Think
NEWSLINK The Hollywood Reporter: Movie Attendance Hits Five-Year High in Russia
NEWSLINK New York Times: Russians Feel Ruble’s Fall, but Putin Remains Mostly Unscathed
NEWSLINK Kyiv Post: Western-educated Ukrainians seeking to transform government from key posts.
NEWSLINK Kyiv Post/Samuel Ramini: Yanukovych trial won’t bolster confidence in justice system.
NEWSLINK Ukraine Today: Ukraine faces possibility of further waves of conscription with only half of 25,000 target reached.
NEWSLINK Interfax-Ukraine: Sixth mobilization stage in Ukraine 60% complete – General Staff’s Pravdyvets
NEWSLINK Wall Street Journal: Putin Escalates Again in Ukraine
NEWSLINK New York Times: Artifacts from Crimean Museums Are Held Hostage by Politics
NEWSLINK Kiev Post/Alexei Bayer: “Even if the Russian economy crumbles – as it is likely to do in the near-to-medium term, just as the Russian economy collapsed under Bolshevism – it will not result in any kind of a new beginning. There may be changes, but probably not for the better.”
Even if the Russian economy crumbles – as it is likely to do in the near-to-medium term, just as the Russian economy collapsed under Bolshevism – it will not result in any kind of a new beginning. There may be changes, but probably not for the better.
» Read moreNEWSLINK Boston Globe book review: “‘The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution’ by Dominic Lieven”
Lieven, a senior research fellow at Trinity College in Cambridge, England, who taught Russian studies at the London School of Economics for a third of a century, has produced what is basically a Russian history of the origins of World War I, though with ample and appropriate recognition of the role of Western Europe in the fighting.
» Read moreNEWSLINK The National Interest/Eugene Steinberg: “Revealed: Russia’s Mighty Pivot to Africa”
Russia’s interests in Africa are manifold. As economic sanctions constrict its trade with the West, Africa is becoming an increasingly attractive investment opportunity. At the same time, Africa’s fifty-four countries represent a political opportunity to relieve Russia’s isolation and build support for its actions in the UN. Finally, Russia’s prominence in Africa lends credibility to its reassertion of world power […]
» Read moreNEWSLINK Globe and Mail (Canada): “Russia’s Brief, Shining Moment”
Mark MacKinnon visits the unassuming city in the shadow of the Urals where, not long ago and for not very long, free expression was allowed to flourish. In fact, it was encouraged and even financed by the state. Then something happened.
» Read moreNEWSLINK Interfax-Ukraine: “Most Ukrainians would vote for joining NATO in referendum – poll”
If Ukraine held a referendum regarding NATO membership in July 2015, more than half of Ukrainians casting their ballots would vote for joining the alliance, as is evident from a sociological survey of 2,011 respondents conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives foundation and the Razumkov Center sociological service on July 22-27, 2015. click here for Interfax-Ukraine: “Most Ukrainians […]
» Read moreNEWSLINK Columbia University: Save the Date: CATHARINE THEIMER NEPOMNYASHCHY’s Memorial Service (October 2)
Friday, October 2, 2015 2:00 – 4:00 pm James Memorial Chapel at Union Theological Seminary (3041 Broadway at 121st St) A memorial service will be held for Professor Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy on Friday, October 2, 2015 in the James Memorial Chapel at Union Theological Seminary (3041 Broadway at 121st St). The service will be followed by a reception at the Diana Center, […]
» Read moreNEWSLINK Washingtonpost/Lev Golkin: “Eastern Ukraine needs help, not isolation”
Twenty-five years ago, my family was stuck in then-Soviet Ukraine. We had nothing, and the West, including the United States, helped us and hundreds of thousands of other refugees even though we were technically “Soviet puppets,” born on the wrong side of the line. Today is a different story. Isolating a region for geopolitical considerations is one thing; withholding life-saving […]
» Read moreNEWSLINK Ukraine Today: Over 100 suicides among Ukrainian soldiers reported since beginning of ATO.
Experts note that assistance of mental health professionals provided in due time can prevent the irretrievable act.
» Read moreNEWSLINK The Observer (UK): The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry review – the importance of rhyme and reason. An ambitious anthology spanning 200 years is welcome – though some of the translators need to work on their rhyming
This anthology is ambitious – in scope, biographical apparatus and in what it expects of its translators. Although the chronological arc is shorter than that of the granddaddy anthology, Dimitri Obolensky’s The Penguin Book of Russian Verse (1965), which included medieval oral poetry and a pair of important 18th-century literary writers, Lomonosov and Sumarokov, the present editors generously r
» Read moreNEWSLINK Wilson Quarterly/Theodore Gerber, Jane Zavisca: WHAT 18 FOCUS GROUPS IN THE FORMER USSR TAUGHT US ABOUT AMERICA’S IMAGE PROBLEMS [excerpt]. After talking with dozens of people in Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Kyrgyzstan, two contradictory, prevailing themes emerge about the United States.
THE UNITED STATES has a major public relations problem in former Soviet countries. Not only in Russia, but in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, and even Ukraine, ordinary people see the U.S. as an arrogant, hegemonic superpower that meddles in the affairs of other countries in a cynical pursuit of its own interests – perceptions that dovetail with the Russian government’s official critiques […]
» Read moreNEWSLINK Financial Times: Demoralised Ukraine troops start to lose faith in Kiev. Echoes broader ebbing of public support for political leaders
On the road into Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine, Vasyl, a Ukrainian army soldier, gestures at fresh roadside craters – the result of shelling by Russian-backed separatists the night before. His men face attacks almost nightly as they guard a checkpoint in this front line suburb of rebel-held Donetsk, he says.
» Read moreNEWSLINK Carnegie Moscow Center: Denis Volkov, How Authentic is Putin’s Approval Rating?
NEWSLINK Reuters: Bypassing Ukraine Will Be Costly for Russia’s Gazprom – Analysts
Russia’s plans to drop Ukraine as a route for pumping natural gas to Europe will still leave state-run Gazprom facing about $1 billion in annual transit fees to Slovakia and Bulgaria for years to come, analysts and industry sources say.
» Read moreFacebook/Ivan Katchanovski: Unreported Revelations from the Maidan Massacre Trial in Ukraine
(Ivan Katchanovski – Facebook – July 22, 2015 – also appeared at facebook.com/ivan.katchanovski/posts/1064562830240269) [entire facebook post set to appear below … click “See More” to open up full post … loading might take longer for some users] [fb_embed_post href=”https://www.facebook.com/ivan.katchanovski/posts/1064562830240269″ width=”100%”/] [featured image is file photo, not directly related to timing of events described in article]
» Read moreNEWSLINK Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs: Eighteen Months on: Post-Maidan Ukraine (interview with Nicolai Petro)
Our guest today is Dr. Nicolai Petro. Dr. Petro is a professor of political science at the University of Rhode Island, specializing in Russia and its neighboring states. He has previously served in the Office of Soviet Union Affairs in the U.S. Department of State and at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and has held fellowships at the Council on […]
» Read moreNEWSLINK The National Interest/Tedo Japaridze: Georgia’s Aspiration: Living with, but Not in, Russia
NEWSLINK Australian Financial Review: How Russia proved to be the best BRICS bet in 2015
Russia’s surge in fortunes presents a contrast with the events of December, when stocks tumbled almost 9 percent and the ruble sank to a record, prompting the central bank to raise interest rates to the highest in more than a decade. That marked the peak of turmoil that had begun with Russia’s annexation of Crimea in March and crude oil’s […]
» Read moreNEWSLINK Los Angeles Times: Future of nuclear arms control looks bleak, experts say.
NEWSLINK Washington Post: Russia’s economic crunch puts pain drugs out of reach, even for the sickest
NEWSLINK New York Times: Putin Criticizes U.S. Role in Afghanistan, Saying Security Hasn’t Improved
NEWSLINK Christian Science Monitor: Islamist threat to Russia looms large at Central Asia security summit
The Kremlin is increasingly concerned about an Islamist uprising in one of the weak autocracies along its southern flank, all of which will be attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit today in Ufa, Russia
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