RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#219 table of contents with links :: Tuesday 21 October 2014

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Johnson’s Russia List
JRL 2014-#219 :: Tuesday 21 October 2014
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1. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Another Indication a New Russian Attack in Ukraine May Be Imminent.
2. RIA Novosti: Obama Compares Russia’s Policy With Ebola Threat, Islamic State.
3. Ukraine: War Log: Violent Kiev Clashes: A Provocation Organised by Russian FSB Agent Yulia Kharlamova.
4. Reuters: Russia ruled out as culprit in Chase cyber security breach, U.S. officials say.
5. TASS: Poland has no recording of Putin’s talks with Tusk on dividing Ukraine.
6. www.rt.com: ‘Total tripe’: Kremlin spokesman slams article on ‘Putin’s plan to divide Ukraine with Poland’
7. RIA Novosti: Swedish Forces Admit Failure, Issuing False Information on Alleged Foreign Submarine Location.
8. New York Times: Ukraine Used Cluster Bombs, Evidence Indicates.
9. Interfax: Gunfire again audible in Donetsk, shells damage gas mains, disrupt power supply – city govt.
10. Russia Direct: Nikolay Pakhomov, Russian foreign policy in Ukraine: Fact vs. fiction. Russia’s foreign policy for Ukraine has a clear logic that the West has yet to fully grasp. Moscow actually wants to stabilize – not destabilize – the situation in Ukraine.
11. The National Interest: James Carden, Putin’s Power Play: Why Russia Holds Most of the Cards in the Ukraine Crisis. And why the situation might go from bad to worse.
12. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with NTV, 19 October 2014.
13. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Remarks by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during an open lecture on Russia’s current foreign policy, Moscow, 20 October 2014.
14. Moscow Times: Russian Rhetoric Doesn’t Point to Reconciliation With West.
15. RIA Novosti: Alexander Mercouris, EU Has Misconceptions About the Origin of Ukrainian Conflict.
16. Reuters: Ukraine, Russia, EU energy chiefs meet to finalise gas deal.
17. Moscow Times: Success of Russia-Ukraine Gas Deal Depends on EU’s Willingness to Pay.
18. Business New Europe: Russia and Ukraine jockey for position before another round of gas talks.
19. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Press Digest: Putin and Poroshenko agree plan for gas and Donbass disputes.
20. Reuters: Factbox: Ukraine’s October 26 snap parliamentary election.
21. Carnegie Moscow Center: Ukraine Election Countdown: 5 Days Remaining.
22. Reuters: War heroes and activists to shape new-look Ukraine parliament.
23. Voice of America: Ukraine’s Euromaidan Reforms Reveal Deep Divisions.
24. Business New Europe: Putin’s import substitution policy is working.
25. Business New Europe: Mark Adomanis, Why a shrinking Russian workforce might let Putin off easy.
26. Interfax: Western sanctions only united Russian society – Naryshkin.
27. Business New Europe: Mark Galeotti, The war that dare not speak its name. (re sanctions)
28. Business New Europe: Russian agricultural production soars after food sanctions.
29. The Vineyard of the Saker: Alexander Mercouris, German intelligence report on MH17.
30. Interfax-Ukraine: Ukraine military denies claims Malaysian Boeing was shot down with captured Ukrainian missile system.
31. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Playing its own game: Belarus as a peacemaker between Russia and the West. The leadership in Minsk seems to be taking advantage of the crisis in Ukraine to improve its image.
32. Jamestown Foundation Eurasia Daily Monitor: Vladimir Socor, Ukraine, the Euromaidan and the EU-A Net Assessment of Kyiv’s Course Toward Europe Since the Start of 2014.
33. Washington Post editorial: In Milan, Germany’s leader strikes the right note on Russian sanctions.
34. Politico.com: Ben Judah, Putin’s Coup. How the Russian leader used the Ukraine crisis to consolidate his dictatorship.
35. New York Times: Where Mud Is Archaeological Gold, Russian History Grew on Trees.
36. Gordon Hahn: New book: The Caucasus Emirate Mujahedin: Global Jihadism in Russia’s North Caucasus and Beyond.
37. Dominique Arel: ASN 2015 World Convention (Proposal Deadline Reminder: 29 October 2014).