RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#255 table of contents with links :: Wednesday 10 December 2014

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Johnson’s Russia List
JRL 2014-#255 :: Wednesday 10 December 2014
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1. AFP: Truce holds in Ukraine but next steps uncertain.
2. Reuters: Ukraine envoy rules out new round of peace talks soon.
3. Interfax: DPR blames Kyiv for disrupting talks.
4. Reuters: Rouble fall, sanctions hurt Russia’s economy – Medvedev.
5. TASS: Russia gave Ukraine $80 billion in discounts as a gift – Medvedev.
6. Interfax: Medvedev: Russia is part of Europe but also eyeing Asia.
7. Government.ru: In Conversation with Dmitry Medvedev: Interview with five television channels.
8. RIA Novosti: Russia says separatist republics ready to restore common space with Ukraine. (Lavrov)
9. RIA Novosti: Moscow open to dialogue with USA, but won’t give up interests – Russia’s Lavrov.
10. Sputnik/RIA Novosti: Lavrov’s Big Interview: Russia-NATO Relations, Arms Race and Ukraine.
11. Interfax: Majority of Russians deem incorporation of Crimea shortly after referendum right.
12. Levada.ru: Almost half of Russians perceive global isolation – poll.
13. Business New Europe: New Ukraine government pledges to ‘utterly transform’ economy.
14. www.rt.com: Russia resumes gas deliveries to Ukraine after six-month hiatus.
15. Wall Street Journal: Crippling of Industry in Eastern Ukraine Reverberates Across Economy. Even as Fighting Diminishes, Messy Aftermath Impedes Return to Business as Usual.
16. Reuters: Russia says small military mission in east Ukraine at Kiev’s request: RIA.
17. Vedomosti: Closed meeting on volunteers in Eastern Ukraine held in State Duma.
18. Interfax: “Evidence” of Russian troops involved in Ukraine conflict built on primitive fakes – general.
19. The Interpreter: ‘Managed Spring’: How Moscow Parted Easily with the ‘Novorossiya’ Leaders.
20. International Business Times: Cash-Strapped Russia Won’t Support Ukrainian Separatist Regions Of Donetsk And Luhansk.
21. http://veragraziadei.com: Ramil Zamdykhanov and Vera Graziadei, Donetsk’s faint hopes for new ceasefire in Ukraine.
22. TASS: Western sanctions against Russia may last until 2017 – minister.
23. TASS: Anti-corruption crusade in Russia goes on unabated.
24. www.rt.com: Rights situation in Russia improved, but problems remain – ombudsman.
25. Interfax: Russia to study Navalnyy NGO’s anti-graft proposal after 100,000 sign petition.
26. TASS: Russian independent TV news channel could return to cable packages.
27. www.openedemocracy.net: Elisabeth Schimpfossl, Reporting on Russian television. The idea of censorship on Russian television misses the point. When it comes to reporting, loyalty takes precedence.
28. Interfax: Updated Russian military doctrine has no preemptive nuclear strike provision – source.
29. Reuters: Gorbachev calls for U.S.-Russia summit to defrost ties.
30. Russia Direct: History repeats itself in how US and Russia view each other. Russian historian Ivan Kurilla shares his thoughts about the current U.S.-Russia confrontation, arguing that the spike of anti-Americanism in Russia and Russophobia in the U.S. are part of a broader historical cycle.
31. Moscow Times: Dmitri Trenin, Russia Must Sit Up and Take Notice of India.
32. Kremlin.ru: Interview to the Indian Information Agency PTI.
33. Sputnik: Dmitry Babich, There is No Anti-Russian Consensus in Eastern Europe.
34. Die Zeit (Germany): Prominent German Signatories – Open Letter: Another war in Europe? Not in our name!
35. Sputnik: Washington Believes US Has Right to Produce Regime Change in Russia. (interview with Giullietto Chiesa)
36. New York Times: Masha Gessen, The Myth of the Russian Oligarchs.
37. Forbes.com: Avi Tiomkin, Farewell Putin.
38. The Brookings Institution: PUTIN AND RUSSIAN POWER IN THE WORLD: THE STALIN LEGACY. (meeting with Stephen Kotkin)