RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#264 table of contents with links :: Saturday 27 December 2014

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Johnson’s Russia List
JRL 2014-#264 :: Saturday 27 December 2014
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1. Russia Direct: The Russian media forecasts a gloomy 2015.
2. BBC: Russia refuses to have a gloomy New Year.
3. Russia Direct: 2014 for Russia — the year no experts could have predicted. The outgoing year will be remembered for Russia’s annexation of Crimea, President Vladimir Putin’s unprecedented high rating in public opinion polls and the beginning of a severe economic recession.
4. USA Today: Retirees starve in rebel-held eastern Ukraine.
5. Moscow Times: Tanya Lokshina, Civilians Despair as Both Sides Break the Rules in East Ukraine.
6. Reuters: Russia says to supply coal, electricity to Ukraine.
7. Reuters: Ukraine and pro-Russia rebels swap hundreds of prisoners.
8. TASS: No decline in Russians’ confidence in Vladimir Putin.
9. www.rt.com: Gorbachev: Putin saved Russia from disintegration.
10. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Vladimir Putin’s Chickens Are Coming Home To Roost.
11. www.rt.com: Ruble recovers, as big exporters ordered to behave.
12. TASS: Ukraine’s state power agencies, rank-and-file people in confrontation again.
13. TASS: Poll finds more Ukrainians unhappy with quality of life.
14. RIA Novosti: NATO will be useful if it drops its geopolitical ambitions – Russian envoy.
15. Forbes.com: Doug Bandow, Ukraine Wants To Join NATO And Fight Russia: U.S. Must Say No And Make Alliance An Issue of Security, Not Charity.

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

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