Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#146 :: Thursday PM 30 July 2015
Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#146
Thursday PM 30 July 2015
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1. InformNapalm: Analysis of Russian Army General Staff Plans of Capturing Ukraine.
2. Bloomberg: No Quick Fix for Ukraine With Limp Revival Next After Recession.
3. Business New Europe: Sergei Kuznetsov, KYIV BLOG: Ukraine elites face reshuffle as Tymoshenko regains popularity.
4. TASS: Political parties for sale in run-up to Ukraine’s elections.
5. www.foreignpolicy.com: Ievgen Vorobiov, Vote-Buying Cheapens Ukraine’s New Democracy.
6. Counterpunch.org: Dmitry Rodionov, The ‘Ichkerization’ Crime Wave in Ukraine.
7. www.rt.com: Power thinking: Autonomy-seeking ethnic group, Right Sector movement in Ukraine conjured up by RT?
8. Business Ukraine: Interview: US combat veteran embedded with the Ukrainian army. American journalist Nolan Peterson reflects on a week spent under near-constant fire in the trenches of east Ukraine.
9. Interfax: Russia’s ambassador to London explains why Russia-NATO conflict over Ukraine is impossible.
10. www.rt.com: Russia vetoes MH17 tribunal draft at UN Security Council.
11. Interfax: Kremlin: Probe into MH17 crash cannot be turned into ‘political inquisition’
12. TASS: Why is Russia against international tribunal over MH17 flight crash?
13. Counterpunch.org: Conn Hallinan, Ukraine: Close to the Edge.
14. The Vineyard of the Saker: Oleg Tsarev on the current situation in the Donbass and in Ukraine.
15. Izvestia: Pundit predicts collapse of Ukraine, claims southeast could join Russia. (Aleksandr Chalenko)
16. Kyiv Post: Transcript of July 28 press briefing by Tombinski, Pyatt. (European Union Ambassador to Ukraine Jan Tombinski and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey R. Pyatt)
