RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#243 table of contents with links :: Monday 24 November 2014
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JRL 2014-#243 :: Monday 24 November 2014
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1. Financial Times: John Thornhill, It is time for the west and Ukraine to offer Putin a deal. Ukraine will never succeed with a hostile Russia on its borders.
2. Moscow Times: Putin Talks Obama, God and the Iron Curtain in New Interview
3. TASS: Civil society must not be used to influence Russia from abroad – Putin.
4. TASS: Putin says he is not obsessed with approval ratings.
5. TASS: No-one untouchable in fight with corruption – Putin.
6. Kremlin.ru: Interview to TASS News Agency.
7. www.rt.com: Western sanctions are aimed at regime change in Russia – Lavrov.
8. TASS: Ukraine chooses non-bloc policy but NATO door still open – secretary-general.
9. Sputnik: German Foreign Minister Says Ukraine’s NATO, EU Membership Impossible.
10. Bloomberg: Medicine and Meat Out of Reach Amid Ukrainian Price Shock.
11. Kyiv Post: On revolution anniversary, anger over unpunished deaths.
12. www.rt.com: Bryan MacDonald, #Euromaidan 1st birthday: How the Kiev coup grew.
13. Sputnik: Ukrainian Crisis Rooted in Twenty Years of Poor Governance: US Expert. (Michael O’Hanlon)
14. Kyiv Post: Newsless Joe Biden’s disappointing visit to Kyiv.
15. The Kremlin Stooge: Mark Chapman, Jens Stoltenberg Tries Out The Latest NATO Meme – The Russian Air Force is a Menace to Civil Aviation.
16. Reuters: Russia puts losses from sanctions, cheaper oil at up to $140 bln/year.
17. http://readrussia.com: Mark Adomanis, How to Write about Russia.
18. www.opendemocracy.net: Natalia Antonova, Kremlinphobia, russophobia and other states of paranoia. The Russian government likes to regularly accuse the West of being ‘russophobic.’ They’re right, but not for the reasons they think.
19. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: De-Stalinization Hasn’t Been Completed in Russia, Lukin Says.
20. Russia Direct: Signs of Russia’s slide into isolation, from Australia to Serbia. Weekly Media Roundup: The Russian media focused on Russia’s performance at the G20 Summit in Australia, as well as attempts by the EU to pressure Serbia to impose sanctions on Russia.
21. Moscow Times: U.S. Ambassador John Tefft Unfazed by ‘Inevitable’ Slump in Russia Relations.
22. US-Russia.org: Now is the time to find a way out of the East-West confrontation: will Europe or Washington lead the way? (discussion panel)
23. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Russia, China plan war games, arms sales. Could alliance be in the cards? With Russia alienated by the West and China eager to buy high-end weaponry, a joint military pact – though still a long way off – looks increasingly seductive to both.
24. Carnegie Moscow Center: Maxim A. Suchkov, The Drivers of Russian Policy in the Post-Soviet Space.
25. Democracy & Freedom Watch: Caucasus is caught between two ambitious powers. (interview with Ronald Suny)
26. Asia Times: Pepe Escobar, Washington plays Russian roulette.
27. The Vineyard of the Saker: Q&A with the Saker by Controinformazione in Italy.
28. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Remarks by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during the Government Hour in the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Moscow, 19 November 2014.
