RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#263 table of contents with links :: Tuesday 23 December 2014
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JRL 2014-#263 :: Tuesday 23 December 2014
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1. Richard Sakwa: Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands.
2. The Daily Telegraph (UK): Tony Brenton, Now’s the time to shake hands with Vladimir Putin. Russia’s president is here to stay and his weakened country is looking to do a deal.
3. Sputnik: Calling All Stations: West Under Russian Media Attack!
4. Reuters: Informal capital controls arrest Russian rouble’s slide.
5. AP: Russia’s Medvedev in warning over ‘deep recession’
6. www.rt.com: Ukraine has been turned into Russia’s potential enemy – Medvedev.
7. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Press Digest: Is West trying to hurt Russia by driving Ukraine to default?
8. Sputnik: Return to Minsk: What to Expect From the New Round of Ukraine Peace Talks.
9. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Best of 2014: People of the year. (1. Mikhail Khodorkovsky)
10. www.politico.com: Alec Luhn, Scenes From Putin’s Economic Meltdown. Russian shoppers are buying everything they can-before the ruble collapses completely.
11. Carnegie Moscow Center: What Should We Do About the Weakening Ruble, Lower Oil Prices and Sanctions? (SERGEI ALEKSASHENKO, MIKHAIL KRUTIKHIN, and YUVAL WEBER)
12. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Russia’s Ruble Crisis: Everything Has A Price.
13. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, The Ruble Crisis, Russia, And China: If You Take The King’s Shilling, You Do The King’s Bidding.
14. The Vineyard of the Saker: Federico Pieraccini, Ruble, Oil, Shale Gas, Derivatives and American Hegemony.
15. Washington Post editorial: Ukraine’s economy is on the rocks and needs Western help.
16. The National Interest: James Carden, Dangerous Escalation: US Backs Putin Into a Corner. With the ruble in freefall, and U.S. sanctions intensifying. Russia has less and less to lose.
17. The Nation: James Carden, More Sanctions for Russia, More Military Aid for Kiev Will Undermine the Fragile Ceasefire. Just after jettisoning one Cold War relic, President Obama gave renewed credence to another.
18. Washington Post: Joshua Tucker, Will Russia’s economic turmoil affect its foreign policy? (with Vladimir Gel’man, David M. Woodruff, Kimberly Marten, Dmitry Gorenburg, Juliet Johnson, and Dinissa Duvanova)
19. The Fiscal Times; Patrick Smith, Fallout from Obama’s Russia Strategy Is Spreading through Europe.
20. TASS: Russian popular daily publishes eyewitness report on Ukraine’s role in MH17 crash.
21. Bloomberg: China Offers Russia Help With Currency Swap Suggestion.
22. TASS: China’s readiness to back up Russia with yuan swap sure sign of trust – analysts.
23. Asia Times: Pepe Escobar, Russia, China mock divide and rule.
24. Reuters: Ukraine angers Moscow by scrapping ‘non-aligned’ status.
25. Kyiv Post: Ukraine’s parliament votes for historic step towards NATO.
26. www.rt.com: ‘Counterproductive’: Ukraine seeking NATO membership ‘a false solution’, says Russia.
27. Russia Direct: Vladimir Evseev, Failure to save INF Treaty would jeopardize European security. Termination of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty could lead to an arms race in Europe and a rise in Cold War rhetoric.
28. AP: Belarus enjoys bonanza amid Russia-West tensions.
29. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, THE OLIGARCHS TO LEAD RUSSIA A DANCE IN 2015 – CHOOSING YOUR PARTNERS WHEN YOU ARE AT WAR.
30. Sputnik: US Embassy in Moscow Will Not Fire Russians Despite New Intelligence Law.
31. TASS: Economic woes force English-language St Petersburg Times to suspend publication.
32. Valdai Discussion Club/Russia in Global Affairs: Dmitry Suslov, For a Good Long While. The Russian-U.S. confrontation is amplifying an even larger trend in global development – the danger of the world’s division into the “Greater West” and the “Eurasian non-West.” There is the impression that the geography of the division resembles the dividing line between “continental” and “island” countries in classical geopolitics.
33. Carnegie Moscow Center: Dmitri Trenin, Russia’s Breakout From the Post-Cold War System: The Drivers of Putin’s Course.
