UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-9 :: Friday PM, 15 January 2016
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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#8
Friday 15 January 2016
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UKRAINE
1. AP: Ukraine Expects to Restore Control Over Rebel East This Year.
2. The Nation: James Carden, Congress Has Removed a Ban on Funding Neo-Nazis From Its Year-End Spending Bill. Under pressure from the Pentagon, Congress has stripped the spending bill of an amendment that prevented funds from falling into the hands of Ukrainian neo-fascist groups.
3. TASS: Kiev forces shell Donetsk airport.
4. Interfax: Territorial battalions uncontrolled by Kyiv breaking truce in Donbas – Pushilin.
5. AFP: US, Kremlin officials meet at Russian border for Ukraine talks.
6. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Could 2016 see Ukraine crisis resolved? Russian moves hint yes. The halting Minsk process, meant to peaceably reunite Ukraine with its restive eastern regions, got a big boost in recent weeks with the assignment of two top Putin officials to key positions in the Russian team.
7. BBC: Russian media upbeat about new envoy to Minsk peace talks on Ukraine.
8. The Kremlin Stooge: Mark Chapman, Last Train From Desperateville. (re the Atlantic Council and Ukraine)
9. Russia Insider: Paul Antonopoulos, The Great Sham That Was Ukraine’s EuroMaidan. Supposedly ex-president Yanukovich was authoritarian, but political freedoms have only diminished since his ouster.
10. Kyiv Post: No Revolution Here: News Media In Ukraine Remain In Same Hands.
11. Kyiv Post: What feeds SBU’s fighter dog reflexes
12. Bloomberg: Hidden Sting Raises Costs for Ukraine in Russian Trade War.
13. www.rt.com: Poroshenko admits to coordinating actions of radicals maintaining Crimea blockade.
14. Interfax-Ukraine: EU positively assesses reforms in Ukraine. (Poroshenko)
15. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, US INVESTORS IN RAID AGAINST DMITRY FIRTASH – STEPHEN LYNCH ATTEMPTS TAKEOVER OF UKRAINIAN GAS PRODUCER, MISEN ENERGY.
16. BBC: Russian TV details objections to Dutch report on MH17 crash listed in new letter.
17. www.opendemocracy.net” Andrii Portnov, How ‘eastern Ukraine’ was lost. Nearly two years after the outbreak of fighting, nearly 9,000 people have died in eastern Ukraine. To understand how this war ends, we need to understand how it began.
