RUSSIA & UKRAINE: Johnson’s Russia List contents with links :: 2014-#65 :: Monday, 24 March 2014
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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#65 :: 24 March 2014
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1. Interfax: Russian Defense Ministry denies rumors about concentration of troops on Ukrainian border.
2. www.russiatoday.com: Moscow: No troop build-up or undeclared military activity near Ukraine borders.
3. www.rbth.ru: Will the Ukrainian conflict turn hot? Ukrainian interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has warned Russia than any attempt to annex areas of Eastern Ukraine will meet a very tough response, including a military one. EU in Brussels also spoke of measures beyond the already agreed, should Russia move into Ukrainian mainland. But does Russia have an appetite for East Ukrainian provinces and how likely is the escalation of this political crisis to a military one?
4. Valdai Discussion Club: Alexei Mukhin, Sergei Mikheyev and Alexei Fenenko, Crimea: What to Expect from Ukraine and the West.
5. Business New Europe: Ben Aris, KYIV BLOG: Interim Ukraine govt in the same hole as Yanukovych.
6. Anatol Lieven: Ukraine should be a bridge, not a battleground.
7. http://grahamwphillips.com: Why Respect Yanukovych (10 Reasons).
8. The Irish Times: Eamonn McCann, If we have to pick a side over Crimea, let it be Russia.
9. Kremlin.ru: Congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
10. Kremlin.ru: Meeting with permanent members of the Security Council.
11. www.russiatoday.com: President Putin mocks US sanctions, vows not to retaliate.
12. Interfax: Moscow restaurants impose “entry ban” on Obama.
13. Interfax: Russians support Crimean accession to Russia – poll.
14. Al Jazeera: Sergei Khrushchev, Crimea: Whose land is this? Part 1. In order to understand the conflict in Crimea, one has to know the history of the peninsula.
15. Al Jazeera: Sergei Khrushchev, Crimea: Whose land is this? Part 2. Is it fair for the US to expect unconditional obedience from Russia against its own national interests?
16. Reuters: Sanctions bind Russia together, for now.
17. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Why US sanctions could play into Putin’s hand. The post-Crimea sanctions are meant to squeeze top Russian officials and businessmen. But will the measures just push them closer to the Kremlin?
18. www.russiatoday.com: Russia may counter sanctions threat with foreign real estate ban for officials.
19. www.russiatoday.com: Sanctions effect: Russia to change its economic partners–for the better.
20. RIA Novosti: Ukraine-EU Pact Signals Step Towards NATO – Russian Ministry Source.
21. New York Times: Thomas Friedman, Foreign Affairs; Now a Word From X. (1998 interview with George Kennan)
22. Moscow Times: What the Papers Say, March 24, 2014.
23. Wall Street Journal: U.S. Scurries to Shore Up Spying on Russia. In Crimea, Russia May Have Gotten a Jump on West by Evading U.S. Eavesdropping.
24. www.breitbart.com: Sources Tell CNN’s Jake Tapper Russia Could Invade Ukraine over Weekend.
25. The Daily Mail (UK): ‘Putin wants all of Ukraine’: Kiev government warns that Russia is preparing to invade in the wake of Crimean independence vote.
26. The Guardian: Russian troops may be massing to invade Ukraine, says White House.
27. EU Observer: Russia to Europe: We can do whatever we want.
28. Euromaidan PR: Mychailo Wynnyckyj, Delayed invasion/May Gambit – Thoughts from Kyiv on 22 March 2014.
29. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Russians Must Oust Putin Rather than Suffer for His Imperial Ambitions, Felshtinsky Says.
30. New York Times: Michael McFaul, Confronting Putin’s Russia.
31. Moscow Times: Oleh Tyahnybok, We Will Stop Russian Aggression in Ukraine.
32. RIA Novosti: Russia Slams Robbery of Russian Train Passengers in Ukraine.
33. World Affairs Journal: Alexander J. Motyl, ‘Experts’ on Ukraine.
34. Voice of Russia: Ukrainians lay down three thousand weapons to police – Interior Minister.
35. Reuters: Disquiet in Baltics over sympathies of Russian speakers.
36. Reuters: Kiev woos oligarchs, bolstering east against Putin.
37. Sean’s Russia Blog: William Risch, Ukraine: Two Heroes, Two Revolutions.
38. Washington Post: Farid Guliyev and Nozima Akhrarkhodjaeva, Why Ukraine’s Euromaidan is not spreading to other post-Soviet states.
39. Business New Europe; Chris Weafer, Russia-Ukraine: Return of the Prometheans.
