RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#96 contents with links :: Sunday 27 April 2014
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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#96 :: 27 April 2014
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1. Washington Post editorial: In Mr. Putin’s Russia, the lights of liberty are flickering.
2. Washington Post: John McCain, John Barrasso, John Hoeven and Ron Johnson, It is time for the West to move ahead without Russia.
3. AFP: Obama decries ‘thugs’ in Ukraine, Russian ‘provocation’
4. Russia Direct: What a new Cold War between Russia and the US means for the world. RD Exclusive: Robert Legvold, Professor Emeritus of Columbia University, analyzes the impact of a new Cold War between Russia and the West. In a worst-case scenario, it may derail future U.S.-Russia bilateral cooperation in regions extending from the Middle East to the Asia-Pacific.
5. New York Times: For Russia, Negatives Seem to Outweigh Positives of an Invasion.
6. ITAR-TASS: Re-run of Caribbean crisis in Ukraine must be avoided by all means.
8. www.rt.com: Three Ukraine elite Alpha group agents captured in Donetsk region.
9. The Independent (UK) editorial: Sanctions can still work in eastern Ukraine. Crimea was one thing. Eastern Ukraine is entirely another matter and it is against Russia’s interest to incite separatism there.
10. www.rt.com: Russian planes have not entered Ukrainian airspace – Moscow.
11. www.rt.com: ‘Tanks, APCs, 15,000 troops’: Satellite images show Kiev forces build-up near Slavyansk.
12. Interfax-Ukraine: Ukraine says “terrorists” to use OSCE state observers as “human shield”
13. http://www.moonofalabama.org: Ukraine: Media Obfuscate About “OSCE Observers”
14. Kyiv Post: Dmitry Tymchuk’s military blog: Russian-backed extremists likely to cause more trouble during May holidays.
15. Washington Post: Lally Weymouth, Ukrainian internal affairs minister: The separatists ‘will be punished severely’
16. Washington Post: Lally Weymouth, Ukraine’s prime minister: ‘You have to do everything all at once’
17. Washington Post: Lally Weymouth, Ukraine’s Tymoshenko: The U.S. and E.U. ‘underestimate the real threat of this situation’
18. Interfax-Ukraine: Tymoshenko slams Poroshenko’s idea of Ukraine-Russia bilateral talks.
19. Washington Post: Lally Weymouth, Interview with Ukrainian presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko.
20. Komsomolskaya Pravda: Russia undecided on Ukraine election recognition – UN envoy.
21. Reuters: Obama urges united riposte to Russia for “destabilising” Ukraine.
22. www.rt.com: US failing to push economic sanctions against Russia through EU allies.
23. PBS Newshour: European business community concerned over new Russian sanctions.
24. Interfax: Foreign investors not put off by Western sanctions – Russian deputy PM.
25. www.rt.com: Ukraine’s failure to pay gas debt may cut gas supply to Europe – Russia’s energy minister.
26. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Oleg Nemensky, Understanding Ukrainian nationalism through the prism of Bandera.
27. New York Times: Sanctions Revive Search for Secret Putin Fortune.
28. Institute of Modern Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky: “No dictator will turn us, independently-thinking individuals, into enemies”
29. Atlantic Council: Russian Ex-Prime Minister: Widen Sanctions on Putin’s Elite Allies. Kasyanov Urges West to Urgently Sanction Hundreds of Russian Legislators, Ministers.
30. Financial Times: John Lloyd, Russian liberals warn of painful landing after pro-Putin euphoria.
31. New York Times: Thomas Friedman, Who Will Influence Whom?
32. The National Interest : Michael Kofman, Putin’s Grand Strategy for Ukraine.
33. Forbes: Katya Soldak, Vladimir Putin And His Bodyguard Of Lies.
34. http://profile.typepad.com/davidhabakkuk: David Habakkuk, The Past and the Present.
35. www.rt.com: Majority of Russians still support Lenin’s burial – poll.
36. Government.ru: Government report on its performance in 2013. (Medvedev)
