RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#83 contents with links :: Sunday 13 April 2014
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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#83 :: 13 April 2014
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1. Los Angeles Times: Ukraine official: ‘Anti-terrorist operation’ launched against separatists.
2. http://euromaidanpr.com: Plan B: Flatten Belgorod.
3. www.foreignpolicy.com: Michael Weiss, Russia Is an Arsonist, Pretending to Be a Fire Safety Inspector.
4. CNN.com: Robin Niblett, The West must not blame itself for Putin’s revanchism.
5. http://euromaidanpr.com: SOS! RUSSIA OCCUPIES CONTINENTAL UKRAINE!
6. http://euromaidanpr.com: Vadym Denysenko, Putin’s Plan: Civil War in Ukraine.
7. www.skynews.com.au: ‘Moscow laying landmines’ says Kiev.
8. The Economist: Ukraine and Russia. Wearily back to the battlefield. The disturbances in eastern Ukraine demonstrate that Russia wants to destabilise the country before next month’s election.
9. http://zik.ua: Kremlin spin doctors change tune. Kremlin has issued new instructions to Ukrainian separatists.
10. http://zik.ua: Putin’s Russia won’t survive without external enemy, Georgia parliament vice speaker says.
11. http://euromaidanpr.com: Appeal Of The Right Sector Leader Dmytro Yarosh To The People Of Ukraine.
12. www.rt.com: Ukraine’s nationalist party leader calls for Right Sector’s total mobilization.
13. RFE/RL: Former Journalist Spearheads Ukraine’s Lustration Effort.
14. http://zik.ua: Pravy Sektor seizes Communist party office, burns Lenin books.
15. Kyiv Post editorial: Business as usual. The West has called Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula a wake-up call. Now that the West is awake, it should get out of bed, wipe the sleep from its eyes, stop talking and start moving.
16. RFE/RL: Robert Coalson, Putin Pledges To Protect All Ethnic Russians Anywhere. So, Where Are They?
17. The New Republic: Julia Ioffe, Putin Doesn’t Need to Invade Ukraine to Destabilize It, But He Just Might Anyway.
18. www.thedailybeast.com: Jamie Dettmer, Putin Can Take Ukraine Without an Invasion, and Probably Will.
19. Los Angeles Times: Carol Williams, Invading may be President Vladimir Putin’s Plan B in Ukraine. The Russian president is pushing regional autonomy to keep the central government weak. If that doesn’t work, he’s got the army.
20. www.buzzfeed.com: Russian “War Tourists” Stirring Trouble In East Ukraine.
21. www.foreignpolicy.com: David Patrikarakos, On the Barricades of Donetsk. The armed Russian protesters in Eastern Ukraine aren’t leaving any time soon — and that could lead to war.
22. Jamestown Foundation Eurasia Daily Monitor: Vladimir Socor, Russia destabilizes eastern Ukraine in run-up to presidential election.
23. Moscow Times: Michael Bohm, 6 More Russian Myths About Crimea.
24. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Putin’s Policy in Ukraine is ‘the Worse Things are There the Better for the Kremlin,’ Kiselyev Says.
25. Postimees (Estonia) editorial: Russia trying to keep Ukraine unstable.
26. New York Post: Mark Nuckols, Behind Putin’s Ukraine ‘unrest’ game.
27. The National Interest: F. Stephen Larrabee and Peter A. Wilson, Calling Putin’s Bluff.
28. NATO: Russia’s accusations – setting the record straight. Fact Sheet.
29. Commission on Security & Cooperation in Europe: U.S. Helsinki Commission. Testimony of Ambassador Motsyk, Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States
30. Commission on Security & Cooperation in Europe: U.S. Helsinki Commission. Ukraine: Confronting Internal Challenges and External Threats. Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State. (transcript)