Category: Newslinks
NEWSLINK Reuters: “Upstaged NATO searches for ‘360-degree’ response to Russia”
NEWSLINK Washington Post: “Team Russia: World Police”
NEWSLINK Reuters: “Investment tide may have turned for crisis-hit Russia”
NEWSLINK Council on Foreign Relations/Steven Pifer: “Crisis Over Ukraine. Contingency Planning Memorandum Update.”
NEWSLINK Kyiv Post: “Poroshenko, Yatsenyuk slammed over prosecutors”
NEWSLINK AP: “NATO: Russia more interested in shocking, intimidating” [Alexander Vershbow]
NEWSLINK Wall Street Journal: “Ukraine Threatens Russia With Legal Action Over Debt. Prime minister gives Moscow two-week deadline to restructure $3 billion bond”
NEWSLINK Kyiv Post: “Svoboda, Right Sector march streets to mark Oct. 14 Defenders’ Day holiday in Ukraine”
NEWSLINK Foreign Policy magazine: “Can Poroshenko Control Ukraine’s Right Wing? The Ukrainian leader’s newest opponents are in his own parliament”
NEWSLINK New York Times: “Russian Military Uses Syria as Proving Ground, and West Takes Notice”
NEWSLINK Time/Eugene Rumor: “A Way Forward for Obama and Putin in Syria. The Iran deal offers lessons to address the crisis.”
NEWSLINK New York Times/Julia Ioffe: “Why Russia’s Alternate History of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Matters”
NEWSLINK The Hill: “Caught between nationalists and Yanukovych alums, Ukraine’s future more uncertain than ever”
NEWSLINK AP: “A Putin craze takes hold in the Middle East, praising his ‘personality and charisma'”
NEWSLKINK Moscow Times/Alexander Golts: “War Is Peace: Russia’s Orwellian Propaganda”
NEWSLINK Kyiv Post: Oligarchy needs to be dismantled to rebuild economy, public trust in business, experts say
NEWSLINK The National Interest/Andrey Sushentsov: “Lowdown: Making Sense of Russia’s Syria Strategy. A view from Moscow on Russia’s strategy behind its Syrian move”
NEWSLINK Reuters: “‘Czar Putin’: as secure as he seems?”
NEWSLINK The National Interest/Dave Majumdar: “Russia Could Fly 96 Sorties a Day over Syria”
NEWSLINK Time: How to Parent Like a Russian
NEWSLINK Reuters: “Russia, U.S. move to resume talks on air-to-air conduct over Syria”
NEWSLINK Politico.com/Brzezinski: “Obama should retaliate if Russia doesn’t stop attacking U.S. assets”
NEWSLINK Militarytimes.com: “U.S. vs. Russia: What a war would look like between the world’s most fearsome militaries. Vladimir Putin’s brazen moves in Syria and Ukraine raise new questions about America’s contingency plans. Russia has big ambitions, growing capabilities”
NEWSLINK McClatchy DC: “For Putin, fight in Syria also a struggle with bitter domestic enemies”
NEWSLINK Reuters: “Russia’s import-substitution drive will take years – and may be misguided”
NEWSLINK Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs/David Speedie: “Messrs. Obama and Putin: Put Syria and Syrians First”
NEWSLINK CNBC: “Worst is over for Russia economy: CFO”
NEWSLINK Christian Science Monitor: “At UN, Putin talks tough against IS. Will the West work with him? The Russian president bluntly blamed the US for the chaos in the Middle East. But his plan for an alliance against IS may still find some listeners in the West.”
NEWSLINK New York Times: “Putin’s Credo: Never Let Them See You Sweat”
NEWSLINK The National Interest/Zalmay Khalilzad: “Face-to-Face: Obama Meets Putin. ‘The likelihood of negotiating settlements in Ukraine and Syria could be increased if President Obama uses the meeting with Putin to underscore a reality to Putin: Russia is exposed.'”
NEWSLINK Washington Post/Andrew Roth: “Live from New York: It’s Putin Speech Bingo”
NEWSLINK Washington Post/James Hohmann, Elise Viebeck: “The Daily 202: Putin trolls Obama ahead of United Nations showdown”
[featured image is file photo] Washington Post: James Hohmann and Elise Viebeck, The Daily 202: Putin trolls Obama ahead of United Nations showdown[featured image is file photo].
» Read moreNEWSLINK Sarah Lindemann-Komarova: “Running for Office in Siberia: And the winner is….Last in a series covering the District #35 Novosibirsk City Council election.”
RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#182 :: Friday 18 September 2015
[check back for updates, including more links; links also posted to facebook and twitter] Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#182 Friday – 18 September 2015 A project sponsored through the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs The contents do not necessarily represent the views of IERES or the George Washington University. JRL homepage: russialist.org JRL […]
» Read moreNEWSLINK New York Times: “Putin Defends Russian Military Aid to Syria”
NEWSLINK ReadRussia.com/ Mark Galeotti: “Yakunin and the Systemic Virtues of a Generous Retirement”
NEWSLINK AP: “OSCE Warns of Breakdown of Central Heating in East Ukraine”
NEWSLINK CNN: Putin becomes a political punching bag in White House race
NEWSLINK AFP: Russia kicks off 1,000-day countdown to 2018 FIFA World Cup
NEWSLINK Los Angeles Times: On a chilly beach in Russia, an unlikely surf culture takes root.
NEWSLINK Wall Street Journal/Stephen Sestanovich: “Will Obama Look Weak If He Meets With Putin?”
NEWSLINK Military.com: US to Begin Training Ukraine’s Active-Duty Military
NEWSLINK Euromaidan Press: “Luhansk Governor to dismiss all teachers who support ‘LPR'”
NEWSLINK: The Guardian (UK): “Ukraine bans journalists who ‘threaten national interests’ from country”
NEWSLINK Moscow Times/Ivan Sukhov: “Russian Opposition Must Stop Playing the Fool”
NEWSLINK Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs: “Russia’s Soft Power: A Matter for Church and State”
NEWSLINK The National Interest/Michael O’Hanlon: “How to Resolve the War in Ukraine”
A different approach is needed, one that goes to the heart of the problem by creating a new security architecture for central Europe that all can accept.
» Read moreNEWSLINK Moscow Times/Konstantin Sonin: “Football and the Russian Middle Class”
NEWSLINK Christian Science Monitor: “Russia as safe zone for Syrian refugees?”
It’s not as odd as you’d think. A centuries-old imperial conquest, along with an unusual route to Norway, may lead Syria’s migrants to wash up on Russia’s shores
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