RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#242 table of contents with links :: Friday 21 November 2014

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Johnson’s Russia List
JRL 2014-#242 :: Friday 21 November 2014
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Ukraine

1. CNN.com: Starving, seething and scared: Eastern Ukraine’s residents struggle to survive.
2. Moscow Times: Gorbachev on Russia and Ukraine: ‘We Are One People’
3. The Independent (UK); Mary Dejevsky, The West loves to talk tough on Putin… with the cameras rolling. The difficulty is that both sides have painted themselves into corners.
4. Valdai Discussion Club/Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Fyodor Lukyanov, A Feeling of Deep Dissatisfaction.
5. RFE/RL: New Ukraine Coalition Agreed; Sets NATO As Priority.
6. Kyiv Post: Yatsenyuk emphasizes unity with Poroshenko as Biden visits again.
7. US Embassy Ukraine: Text of Ambassador Pyatt’s Panel Comments at the Kyiv Post Tiger Conference.
8. Kyiv Post: Call To Action. (Tiger Conference)
9. Reuters: Further EU financial aid to Ukraine will hinge on reforms – EU envoy.
10. Business New Europe: Ben Aris, One year after Maidan.
11. Reuters: Ukraine president heckled by relatives of Maidan dead.
12. RFE/RL: Faces Of The Maidan: Where Are They Now?
13. BBC: Andrey Kurkov, Ukraine’s revolution: Making sense of a year of chaos.
14. Vestnik Kavkaza: Three goals of Maidan. (Vladimir Zharikhin)
15. www.rt.com: Euromaidan anniversary: 21 steps from peaceful rally to civil war.
16. TASS: Euromaidan anniversary: nothing to celebrate.
17. Sputnik: Ukraine in Freefall One Year After Euromaidan: Political Experts. Political experts from Moscow and Kiev agree that Ukraine’s prospects for economic self-sufficiency and cooperation with the West are blurry.
18. Interfax: DPR militia report strikes against Donetsk.
19. Moscow Times: Danila Bochkarev, This Winter Needn’t Be a Cold One in Ukraine.
20. Consortiumnews.com: Robert Parry, Delusional US ‘Group Think’ on Syria, Ukraine.
21. Interfax: Russia will pay bigger price in case Donbas situation escalates further – Biden.
22. Reuters: Exclusive: U.S. increasing non-lethal military aid to Ukraine.
23. Sputnik: US Vice President’s Visit to Kiev to Disrupt Peace Process in Ukraine: DPR.
24. www.rt.com: Russia warns US against supplying ‘lethal defensive aid’ to Ukraine.
25. Sean’s Russia Blog: Sean Guillory, Don’t Arm Ukraine.
26. Interfax: Russians say Crimea situation legal, Western opinion doesn’t bother them – poll.
27. Moscow Times: Russia’s Igor Strelkov: I Am Responsible for War in Eastern Ukraine.
28. RussEurope: Jacques Sapir, The truth about the Maïdan massacre.

Russia

29. TASS: Gorbachev warns Putin against “self-assuredness”, ponders global stability.
30. Patrick Armstrong: RUSSIAN FEDERATION SITREP.
31. The Federalist: Paul Bonicelli, How Russian Culture Enables Vladimir Putin’s Global Aggression. Under Vladimir Putin, Russia is returning to the only thing it has ever really been: an armed and insular state guided by political absolutism undergirded by philosophical absolutism.
32. Kyiv Post: Ukrainian, Western experts debate how to stop Putin.
33. Kremlin.ru: Russian Popular Front’s Action Forum. (continued)
34. Moscow Times: Putin Warns of Color Revolutions and Uncontrolled Migration in Extremism Speech.
35. Interfax: Putin says calling for overthrow of Russia’s system of government “extremism”
36. Kremlin.ru: Security Council meeting.
37. Wall Street Journal: Russian GDP Growth Beats Expectations. Economy Expands 0.8% in First 10 Months of 2014.
38. Intefax: Kudrin suggests five steps towards effective Russian economy amid sanctions.
39. Reuters: Russia mulls oil output cut, no decision yet -energy minister.
40. Ben Aris: The tale of two crises (re The Economist).
41. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, PORRIDGE IS FOR SETTLING STOMACHS – RUSSIAN MARKET IS JUMPY BUT THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF GRECHKA.
42. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Don’t speak, memory: Voice against Stalin’s crimes may soon be silenced. Russia’s supreme court is preparing to examine the lawsuit filed by the Ministry of Justice requesting to liquidate Memorial, Russia’s first organization dedicated to preserving the memory of Stalin’s repressions and victims. RBTH reports on who else is telling the truth about the past and why the figure of Russian dictator Joseph Stalin is still popular among Russians.
43. The Economist: Band of brothers. An academic investigation into the networks that control Russia. (re Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? By Karen Dawisha)
44. Financial Times: Thane Gustafson, Russia may pivot to the east but it cannot escape its European destiny. In the meantime, it must engage with Europe and the west.
45. Moscow Times: Hermitage’s Head Defends Contemporary Art Show. (Mikhail Piotrovsky)
46. Die Zeit (Germany): Boris Shumatsky, RUSSIA IS A LIE. Putin and the postmodern.
47. Sputnik: Russian Resources Viewed as Top Prize in Global Crisis War for Survival.
48. Carnegie Moscow Center: Nikolay Kozhanov, “Nuclear Spring” in Russian-Iranian Relations.

Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia Map of Commonwealth of Independent States, European Portion

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