RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#199 :: Tuesday 12 October 2015

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#199
Tuesday – 13 October 2015
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1. Business New Europe: Ukraine investigates nationalists over Maidan shootings.
2. Interfax-Ukraine: PGO verifying info on shooting of Maidan activists from Hotel Ukraine.
3. Facebook: Ivan Katchanovski, Maidan Shootings.
4. http://off-guardian.org: Searches in Kiev: Svoboda party members suspected of Maidan mass murder.
5. TASS: Putin: West sees that resolution of all problems in Donbas not in Moscow’s competence.
6. Russia Direct: Pavel Koshkin, With its grand past and difficult present, Russia’s future still unclear. The Russian government’s shift from a three-year to a one-year budget indicates that the planning horizon of the Russian government has been narrowing even further, making the success of any long-term strategy even more doubtful.
7. Levada.ru: Most Russians think economic crisis will last for years – poll.
8. TASS: Putin: Russian Government and Central Bank show ability to achieve results in crisis.
9. Kremlin.ru: Russia Calling! Investment Forum.
10. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, ‘Resurgent’ Russia Is Actually Starting To Show Worrying Signs Of Decline.
11. Sputnik: Enormous Oil, Gas Reserves Found in Russia’s Arctic Region.
12. Moscow Times: Justice Ministry Wipes 10 NGOs Off ‘Foreign Agents’ List.
13. Moscow Times: Lawmakers Move to Force Russian Media to Report Foreign Funding.
14. Moscow Times: Most Russians Want Homosexuals ‘Liquidated’ or Ostracized – Poll.
15. Washington Post: Did U.S. weapons supplied to Syrian rebels draw Russia into the conflict?
16. New York Times: U.S. Weaponry Is Turning Syria Into Proxy War With Russia.
17. The Unz Review: The Saker, Week One of the Russian Military Intervention in Syria.
18. Moscow Times: Alexander Golts, War Is Peace: Russia’s Orwellian Propaganda.
19. AP: A Putin craze takes hold in the Middle East, praising his ‘personality and charisma’
20. http://america.aljazeera.com: Has Russia saved Lebanon from ISIL? Analysis: With the arrival of Russian jets in Syria, possibility of an ISIL push on Lebanon seems remote for now.
21. Valdai Discussion Club: Vladimir Yevseyev, DOES THE CREATION OF A BROAD COALITION IN SYRIA STAND A CHANCE?
22. Reuters: Josh Cohen, How to respond to Russia in Syria while avoiding World War Three.
23. New York Times: Gorden Adams and Stephen Walt, A Road to Damascus, via Moscow.
24. Russia Direct: Nikolay Pakhomov, Poroshenko is running out of options in Ukraine. The question is not whether Poroshenko will implement the Minsk agreements, but whether the Ukrainian regime will survive any attempt to implement them.
25. Sputnik: Russia Won’t Leave Ukraine Without Gas Despite Accusations of ‘Aggression’
26. The Hill: Polina Popova, Caught between nationalists and Yanukovych alums, Ukraine’s future more uncertain than ever.
27. www.opendemocracy.net: Anton Shekhovtsov, The Crimean blockade: how Ukraine is losing Crimea for the third time. Russia’s annexation of Crimea in March 2014 was not the first time that Ukraine lost the peninsula. In fact, Ukraine has been losing Crimea for 23 years.
28. New York Times: Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Most Likely Hit by Russian-Made Missile, Inquiry Says.
29. www.rt.com: MH17 shot with BUK missile, Ukraine failed to close airspace.
30. Wall Street Journal: Russian State Arms Maker Preempts Dutch Report Into Downing of Flight MH17.
31. TASS: Experts say MH17 might have been downed by Ukraine.
32. Business New Europe: EU said close to lifting sanctions on Belarus as Lukashenko’s landslide win satisfies.
33. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Online reading of Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ to be open to all. Any Russian speakers can apply to take part in December event.