RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#130 contents with links :: Thursday 12 June 2014
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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#130 :: 12 June 2014
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1. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russia Day: The country’s most misunderstood day off.
2. Kremlin.ru: Speech at gala reception to mark Russia Day.
3. Wall Street Journal letter: Kathleen Parthe, Russia’s Sacrifices in World War II.
4. AFP: Without water, east Ukrainians struggle to survive.
5. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Press Digest: Strategic plan needed from Russia for Donetsk and Lugansk.
6. Foreign Affairs: Yuri Zhukov, Rust Belt Rising. The Economics Behind Eastern Ukraine’s Upheaval.
7. Reuters: Putin accuses Ukraine of sabotaging gas talks.
8. Business New Europe: Tim Ash, Russia Sets Ukraine June 16 Deadline as Gas Talks Resume.
9. www.rt.com: Russia-Ukraine gas war: Europe wonders what’s in store.
10. Wall Street Journal: Ukraine Counts Dead in Fighting as Gas Talks With Russia Deadlock. Mounting Death Toll as Civilians Flee Region.
11. Interfax: Lavrov says Russia cooperates with Ukrainian militia to provide aid to civilians.
12. Washington Post: Russia acknowledges sending aid to eastern Ukraine; separatist leader visits Moscow.
13. The Voice of Russia: Debating Russia: Has Poroshenko got the power to change course in Ukraine?
14. www.rt.com: Kiev’s National Guard unit mutiny: ‘We’ve been discarded like trash’
15. Reuters: US quietly sending in troops to train former Soviet bloc states.
16. Reuters: Russia holds military exercises in Baltic in response to NATO.
17. The National Interest: Nikos Tsafos, Europe’s Never-Ending Natural-Gas Obsession. “Russian gas does not weaken Europe politically, and diversification is not the solution.”
18. http://fivethirtyeight.com: The Ukrainian Conflict Has Stunted Ukraine’s Economy Far More Than Russia’s.
19. Deutsche Welle: Ukraine crisis raises risk for nuclear reactors.
20. Spiked: Tara McCormack, What Putin learnt from the West.
21. Business New Europe: Mark Galeotti, No one wins from chaos in Ukraine.
22. Los Angeles TImes editorial: Is Russia ready to back off in Ukraine?
23. Izvestia: German Petelin and Aleksandr Raskin, One Day’s War in Southeast Ukraine Costs Three Million Dollars – Kiev has already spent more than half of Donetsk’s annual budget on the military operation.
24. Deutsche Welle: Ukraine’s information war
25. www.opendemocracy.net: Joanna Szostek, The limitations of Russian propaganda in Ukraine. Russian TV is waging a propaganda war against Ukraine. But is it working?
26. EuromaidanPR.com: More Russian terrorists arrive in Ukraine.
27. EuromaidanPR.com: Keep communists from government, says lustration group.
28. Kyiv Post: Dmitry Tymchuk’s military blog: Separatist leaders keep coming and going in Ukraine’s east.
29. The Atlantic: Peter Pomerantsev, Can Ukraine Win Its Information War With Russia?
30. www.opednews.com: Walter Uhler, Part One: The Propaganda War over Ukraine: The New York Times vs. Russia’s “White Book”
31. www.opednews.com: Walter Uhler, Part Two: The Propaganda War over Ukraine: The New York Times vs. Russia’s “White Book”
32. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Denis Volkov, What is the link between economics and Putin’s popularity?
33. Reuters: Russia presses ahead with plan to limit beer bottle size.
34. Washington Post: Daniel Treisman, Lessons from 25 years of post-communism: the importance of reform, democracy, and geography.
35. Carnegie Moscow Center: Lilia Shevtsova, Russia Day-Independence From Itself?
36. Kremlin.ru: Internet Entrepreneurship in Russia Forum.
37. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russian opposition media unite to go public. Independent news organizations including oppositional television channel Dozhd TV and the Slon and Bolshoi Gorod media outlets are to be brought into one media group and floated on the Moscow stock market. The IPO will be the first by a Russian media holding since 2006.
38. Business New Europe: Number of millionaire households in Russia keeps growing.
39. Interfax: Russia optimistic about comprehensive agreement on Iranian nuclear program – diplomat.
40. Wall Street Journal: Carl Gershman, Book Review: ‘Chechnya’s Secret Wartime Diplomacy’ by Ilyas Akhmadov and Nicholas Daniloff. The Russian leader vowed to ‘strangle the vermin at the root.’ A war of unrestrained brutality against the Chechen people followed.
41. Sic Semper Tyrannis: CORDESMAN FLAGS NEW RUSSIAN DOCTRINE.
42. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Oligarchic Capitalism Blamed for Loss of Russia’s Position in Former Soviet Republics.
43. The Times (UK): Hillary Clinton – Russia: reset and regression.
44. Asia Times: Philip Iglauer, Eastern interest in Eurasian economic deal.
45. Civil Georgia: PM: ‘Russia Not Interested in Annexing’ Abkhazia, S.Ossetia.
46. www.opendemocracy.net: Pål Kolstø, Transnistria is a bridge too far for Russia. The breakaway republic – de facto state – of Transnistria has steadily been edging closer and closer to Russia, but the Kremlin does not seem all that enthusiastic.
