Johnson’s Russia List with links :: 2014-#38 :: Sunday, 23 February 2014

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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#38 :: 23 February 2014
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Sochi Olympics

1. AFP: Putin’s Games sparkle despite shadows of doubt.

2. Reuters: Closing ceremony paints hosts Russia in softer colors.

Ukraine

3. www.russiatoday.com: ‘I’ll be fighting Jews and Russians till I die’: Ukrainian right-wing militants aiming for power.

4. Haaretz (Israel): Ukrainian rabbi tells Kiev’s Jews to flee city. Fearing violence against Ukraine’s Jews, the Jewish community asks Israel for assistance with the security of the community.

5. RIA Novosti: Ukraine’s West, Crucible for Protest and Model of New Order.

6. Bloomberg: Ukraine’s Acting President Warns Economy Is in Dire State.

7. Reuters: Ukraine parliament names acting president, seeks government.

8. Interfax: Tymoshenko could restore stability if appointed PM – Russian lawmaker.

9. The School of Russsian and Asian Studies: Josh Wilson, Agreement in Ukraine: 12 Things You Should Know.

10. The National Interest: Matthew Rojansky, Ukraine’s Oligarchs Need to Step Up.

11. Financial Times: Bloody and tumultuous 72 hours that ended rule of Yanukovich.

12. Reuters: West faces daunting task to rescue Ukraine after uprising.

13. RIA Novosti: Ukraine Says Economy in ‘Critical State,’ Russia Uncertain Over Aid.

14. Moscow Times: Ben Aris, Specter of Money Haunts Ukraine’s Turmoil.

15. Financial Times: Mary Dejevsky, Russia, too, is in quandary over Ukraine.

16. www.russiatoday.com: Peter Lavelle, EU writes Ukraine’s eulogy.

17. Time.com: Simon Shuster, The Russian Stronghold in Ukraine Preparing to Fight the Revolution. Lawmakers and worried citizens in the pro-Russia Crimea consider their options.

18. RFE/RL: Robert Coalson, As Pace Of Political Change Picks Up In Kyiv, Eastern Ukraine Balks.

19. Moscow Times: Josh Cohen, Will Putin Seize Crimea?

20. CNN.com: Jill Dougherty, Is Vladimir Putin really the puppet-master in Ukraine’s crisis?

21. The Telegraph (UK): Ukrainian revolution: ‘It is vital the West works with Putin, not against him’. Ukraine can be put back on the road to a prosperous future but we will need to work with Russia to do it, writes Tony Brenton.

22. Financial Times: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Russia needs to be offered a ‘Finland option’ for Ukraine.

23. The National Interest: Martha Brill Olcott, Ukraine: The Bloody Death of the Post-Soviet State.

24. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Unless Kremlin Learns Lessons of Ukraine, a Russian Maidan is Inevitable, Nemtsov Says.

25. New York Times: Amid Fence-Mending, Another U.S.-Russia Rift.

26. www.paulcraigroberts.org: Paul Craig Roberts, Is Ukraine Drifting Toward Civil War And Great Power Confrontation?

27. www.thenation.com: Nicolai N. Petro, The Battle for Kiev. All parties involved share responsibility for the failure of negotiations and the escalation of violence in Ukraine.

Map of Russia and Russian Flag adapted from images at state.gov

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