Category: Newslinks
NEWSLINK: “Moscow desperate to get Western sanctions lifted” – Kyiv Post/Timothy Ash
NEWSLINK Reuters: “Breaking the Bribe Culture Is Still a Challenge for Ukraine”
NEWSLINK: “Ukraine acts to purge court system of bribery, corruption” – Reuters
NEWSLINK: “What the Falling Oil Price Means for Russia and Ukraine” – Atlantic Council/Anders Aslund
NEWSLINK The Ukrainian Weekly (New Jersey): “2015: U.S.-Ukraine relations: support at a time of war.”
NEWSLINK The Guardian/Shaun Walker: “Caught between Russia and the US? The curious case of Ukraine’s Dmytro Firtash. Critics say the oligarch now living in exile pushed Putin’s agenda during Maidan revolution while a US arrest warrant appeared politically motivated.”
NEWSLINK: “Obstructionist-in-chief” – Kyiv Post
NEWSLINK: “Swine flu exposes Ukraine’s health flaws” – BBC
NEWSLINK Kyiv Post: “Kyiv Post journalist attacked at protest against SBU building construction”
NEWSLINK: “Russia’s Ruling Regime Must Modernize or Face Collapse” – Moscow Times/Nikolai Petrov
NEWSLINK: “Is Kadyrov turning into a bigger liability than a manageable asset?” – Journalistico/Danielle Ryan
NEWSLINK: “Russia’s economy. Phase two. Russia’s economic problems move from the acute to the chronic.” – The Economist
NEWSLINK: “The Kremlin’s London Hit Squad. Recommended reading for Donald Trump on Vladimir Putin.” – Wall Street Journal
NEWSLINK: “Putin’s most aggressive attack dog is unleashed” – Washington Post
NEWSLINK The National Interest/Vladimir Lukin: “How Russia Sees the World. There’s a middle course between nationalist isolation and globalist impulses”
NEWSLINK: “So Putin Killed Litvinenko. Carry On. Britain has been cozying up to Russian money for years, and a dead spy isn’t going to change that.” – Foreign Policy magazine/Peter Pomersantsev
NEWSLINK BNE/Intellinews: “Kremlin nerves tested by oil and ruble’s troubled waters”
NEWSLINK TASS: “Ukraine proves unreliable partner by hiking transit prices for Russian gas”
NEWSLINK VoxUkraine/Sergii Meleshchuk: “Evolution of Ukrainian Economic Complexity: Jogging in Place”
NEWSLINK Sputnik: “Maidan’s Tragic Aftermath: Ukraine Slides Into ‘Staggering’ Poverty”
NEWSLINK Russia Insider/Ricky Twisdale: “‘Impossible’ Kerch Strait Bridge Is Metaphor for Ukraine’s Fantasies About Russia. Russia doesn’t build anything – except state-of-the-art 19 km long bridges”
NEWSLINK: Dances With Bears/John Helmer: “EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS FIRES SECRET UKRAINE MISSILE TO DOWN MH17 VICTIM’S CASE”
NEWSLINK: “How I stopped worrying and learned to love Ukraine’s system” – Euromaidan Press/Lucy Sohryu
NEWSLINK: “In Ukraine, an Opportunity for Progress Between Russia and the West” – Stratfor
NEWSLINK: “Cheap oil roils ruble, but Russia bears the pain. Oil prices have dropped to 12-year-lows, dragging the Russian currency along with it. But the Russian economy may be able to withstand the crunch for now.” – Christian Science Monitor
NEWSLINK: “Russian Economy Stumbles as Stocks and Oil Prices Fall” – New York Times
NEWSLINK RBTH/Kommersant: “Which companies are leaving Russia?”
NEWSLINK Sputnik: “Russia Increases Holdings of US Securities by $6Bln – Treasury Department”
NEWSLINK Russia Direct: “What do the Kremlin and the Russian opposition have in common?”
NEWSLINK Russia Direct: “It’s too early to talk about an improvement in US-Russia relations”
NEWSLINK: “Can Russia handle the flood of Ukrainian immigrants?” – Inter Press Service
NEWSLINK The Guardian/Shaun Walker: “No regrets over Ukraine split, but Crimeans want more love from Russia. Nearly two years on, many are pleased to be free of Kiev, but relations with Moscow are not as rosy as they would like”
NEWSLINK: “With One Eye on Moscow, Europe Presses Ukraine on Reforms” – Reuters
NEWSLINK: “New US-style police officers begin patrol duties on the streets of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk” – Ukraine Today (Kyiv)
NEWSLINK: “IMF Cuts 2016 Growth Forecast for Russia” – Reuters
NEWSLINK: “RUSSIAN RUBLE HITS A NEW LOW AS OIL PRICES WEAKEN” – AP
NEWSLINK Russia Direct: “Russia, China and the US need to work together in 2016. At the Gaidar Forum in Moscow, Russian and foreign experts discussed the role of the great powers in shaping the current system of international relations, as well as the potential ability for Russia and the U.S. to find common ground in 2016”
NEWSLINK International Policy Digest: “Arctic Trade Route Presents Opportunity for Russia-West Cooperation”
NEWSLINK Russia Direct: “Review of the week: Putin’s Bild interview and US-Russia relations. The most important Russian foreign policy events of the past week centered on Ukraine, including a discussion of the Minsk agreements and the potential for increased Russia-U.S. coordination in bringing the confrontation to an end.”
NEWSLINK: “The Forgotten AIDS Crisis in Russia. In Moscow the situation for AIDS/HIV sufferers is bad. In the provinces, it can be desperate” – The Daily Beast
NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s current account improves in 2015, capital outflows fall two-thirds” – Reuters
Reuters covers Russian financial positions. Russia’s current account surplus improved in 2015 while net capital outflows fell by almost two-thirds, underscoring the role of a weaker rouble in mitigating the impact of a slide in oil prices. Preliminary balance of payments data published by the central bank on Monday showed the current account surplus increasing to $65.8 billion in 2015 […]
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