RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#246 table of contents with links :: Sunday 30 November 2014
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JRL 2014-#246 :: Sunday 30 November 2014
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1. The Atlantic: Jeffrey Taylor, Russia Is Finished. The unstoppable descent of a once great power into social catastrophe and strategic irrelevance.
2. www.thedailybeast.com; Anna Nemtsova, Putin’s Health Care Disaster.
3. AFP: Cut-off pensioners slowly starving in rebel-held Ukraine.
4. Globe and Mail (Canada): Mark MacKinnon, ‘We have no homeland’: Ukraine dissolves as exiles flee. It began as a simple trade dispute and escalated into war. A year later, one million Ukrainians have been forced from their homes.
5. Kyiv Post: Wartime Leadership Troika.
6. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Press Digest: No federalization, says Poroshenko as parliament opens in Kiev.
7. Reuters: War veterans steal limelight in Ukraine’s new parliament.
8. www.rt.com: ‘Foreigners at the helm of Ukraine means much more chaos’
9. Moscow Times: Josh Cohen, Ukraine Must Confront Its Corruption Problem.
10. Kyiv Post: Donbas remains divided over region’s future.
11. AFP: Ukraine faces coal shortage with rebels controlling mines.
12. Wall Street Journal: Sergei Lyovochkin, The Way Forward for Ukraine. As the country integrates more closely with Europe, Russia, in time, will follow.
13. The Real News Network: Ukraine and the Right a Year after Maiden. Sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko says another upheaval will come if the government does not address socioeconomic conditions of ordinary people.
14. Reuters: Moldovans vote, may slow moves to integrate with Europe.
15. The Economist: Germany and Russia. A new Ostpolitik. The two big parties differ, but Germans are hardening their views on Russia.
16. Consortiumnews.com: Robert Parry, Der Spiegel Tones Down Anti-Putin Hysteria.
17. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, THE RUSSIA WAR PARTY CAN’T SPEAK GERMAN, TRAMPLES CHANCELLOR MERKEL’S MEANING.
18. www.rt.com: Pepe Escobar, How Russia and Germany may save Europe from war.
19. Reuters: The Majority Of Russians Believe Their Troops Are Not Fighting In Ukraine.
20. Reuters: West struggles with Russia’s ‘ambiguous warfare’ tactics.
21. Counterpunch.org: Olena Shevchenko, Washington Ready for Lethal Arms Supplies to Kyiv. Biden’s Ukrainian Mission.
22. Le Monde diplomatique: Laurent Geslin and Sébastien Gobert, Eastern Ukraine divided within itself. Failing states. The Ukraine government has withdrawn state financial support from the two rebel ‘republics’ of eastern Ukraine, and the Russian government meddles there but gives little practical assistance. Money is running out, work has run out. And winter has hardly started.
23. TASS: Low oil prices may help Russia shrug off dependence on raw materials export.
24. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Moscow Ready to Use Internal Troops against Any Maidan-Like Activity in Russia, Interior Minister Says.
25. New York Times: Stephen Kotkin, Stalin, Father of Ukraine?
26. New York Times: Jennifer Siegel, ‘Stalin,’ by Stephen Kotkin.
27. Edward Lucas: Response to John Helmer JRL#231.
