RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#175 table of contents with links :: Tuesday 12 August 2014

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Johnson’s Russia List
JRL 2014-#175 :: Tuesday 12 August 2014
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Ukraine

1. www.rt.com: German TV show ridicules ‘evidence’ of Russian involvement in Ukraine crisis.
2. ITAR-TASS: Humanitarian cargo convoy sets off from Moscow Region to southeast Ukraine.
3. RIA Novosti: Putin Tells Hollande About Aid To War-Torn Southeast Ukraine – Kremlin.
4. ITAR-TASS: Destination of Russian humanitarian aid convoy to be agreed upon with Ukrainian side.
5. ITAR-TASS: Luhansk to be final point for aid convoy – Donetsk Republic vice-premier.
6. www.rt.com: On the brink of survival: No electricity, water, communications in besieged Lugansk, E. Ukraine.
7. Wall Street Journal: Russian Aid Convoy Leaves for Ukraine. Kiev Had Demanded Aid be Coordinated Through Red Cross.
8. Business New Europe: Russian and Red Cross convoy leaves Moscow for Ukraine, bearing humanitarian aid.
9. Reuters: Kerry says hopeful Russia and Ukraine can work together.
10. Interfax: Ukraine military scoring successes near Horlivka – Security and Defense Council.
11. Vineyard of the Saker: Neither the worst, nor the best, but time is running out for Novorussia.
12. RIA Novosti: Russia not planning to close air transit route across Siberia – minister.
13. RIA Novosti: Kiev Passes First Reading of Law on Possible Sanctions Against Russian Energy Transit.
14. ITAR-TASS: Russia fears no sanctions, pressure – Medvedev.
15. Moskovskiy Komsomolet: Mikhail Rostovskiy, Is battlefield everywhere? Topic of the day. (re sanctions)
16. ITAR-TASS: Russian sanctions in line with WTO rules – Lavrov.
17. The Daily Telegraph (UK): Tim Benton, The sanctions fight with Russia could make Britain go hungry. We are used to having plentiful food, and at an affordable price. But the crisis in Ukraine should remind us that we cannot take Britain’s food security for granted.
18. Reuters: Europe’s fragile economy put to test as Ukraine, Iraq sour mood.
19. Moscow Times: Mark Adomanis, Russia’s Food Ban Is High-Risk, Low-Reward.
20. Beef Magazine: What Does Russia’s Food Ban Mean For The U.S. Meat Industry?
21. RIA Novosti: Poland to Demand EU Compensation for Russia Imports Ban-Induced Losses.
22. Moscow Times: Brian Yeung, Ukraine Pushes China And Russia Together.
23. New York Times: Ukraine Conflict Puts Culture in Crossfire.
24. Sic Semper Tyrannis: FB Ali, What is holding Putin back?
25. Washington Post editorial: The West must oppose Russia’s ‘humanitarian’ invasion of Ukraine.
26. www.rt.com: Odessa slaughter survivors reveal their side of story in intl photo exhibit.
27. Austere Insomniac: Putin Saved Crimea From Bloodshed.
28. http://orientalreview.org: Kharkov: Place Where Police Terror Reins Supreme.
29. Reuters: William E. Pomeranz, Putin’s already paying dearly for Ukraine – and the price will only go up.
30. Politico.com: Chrystia Freeland, Ukraine Is Winning the War. But will Putin invade?
31. RIA Novosti: Western Media Coverage of Ukrainian Crisis Is ‘Sniperscope Perspective’

Russia

32. Valdai Discussion Club/Forbes.ru: Fyodor Lukyanov, History’s Revenge: Why the USSR’s Collapse Is Like WWI.
33. Wicked Local Cape Cod: Khrushchev comes to Barnstable. Son of soviet premier offers glimpse into Cold War.
34. Reuters: Russian growth data masks likely recession to come.
35. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Despite US and EU Sanctions, Russia’s Economy Is Still Growing.
36. Moscow Times: One in Ten Russians Want to Leave Their Country.
37. Moscow Times: Kremlin Undergoing Major Renovation to Lure Tourists.
38. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Hiding dual citizenship now a criminal offense in Russia.
39. RFE/RL: Russia’s Boom Business: Forced Labor In Prisons.
40. Vineyard of the Saker: Who is Mr. Putin? by Mikhail Khazin.
41. Sean’s Russia Blog: Putin for 15 Years and Counting.
42. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: In Russia, Iron Curtain Falls Not at the End of the Play But Much Earlier, Moscow Sociologist Says.
43. Wall Street Journal: Liam Denning, Russia and Markets: The Power of Weakness. Investors Anticipating Resolution in Ukraine Are Missing Russia’s Bigger Potential for Geopolitical Upset.
44. Ron Paul Institute: Eric Kraus, A Faul’s Errand: Washington’s Amateur Diplomacy – An Obituary.
45. The International New York Times: William Tobe, Matthew Bunn is a professor, and Nickolas Roth, The Russian Tie We Can’t Cut.
46. Moscow Times: Stephen Riegg, Russia Can’t Let Nagorno-Karabakh Slip Into War.
47. www.foreignaffairs.com: Vladislav Inozemtsev and Anton Barbashin, A Grand Bargain with Russia. What It Would Take to Get the Kremlin to Cooperate.
48. New issue Russian Analytical Digest (RAD): ELITES AND OLIGARCHS.