RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2015-#108 table of contents with links :: Johnson’s Russia List – Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#108 :: Tuesday 2 June 2015
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RUSSIA

1. Financial Times: Thomas Graham, Europe’s problem is with Russia, not Putin. Moscow is not a rising revolutionary force but one seeking to restore power.
2. Izvestia: More than half of Russians use internet every day, poll suggests.
3. Business New Europe: Ben Aris, MOSCOW BLOG: Russia is running out of money – revisited.
4. AFP: Russian bear will roar once more, says World Bank. Russia economy forecast to grow by 0.7pc next year, reversing negative growth forecast.
5. Moscow Times: Former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin Sets Conditions for Return to Government.
6. Interfax: Leading Russian liberal economist does not rule out he may come back to power.
7. Sputnik: First Solzhenitsyn Museum Opens in Russia.
8. www.opendemocracy.net: A dissident’s tale. One of the grey cardinals of modern Russian politics, Gleb Pavlovsky talks dissent, history and politics in the late-Soviet era.
9. NTV (Moscow): Russian TV accuses scientific foundation of funding opposition groups.
10. Russia Insider: Gilbert Doctorow, Stop Sugarcoating Russia’s Economic Situation. Whitewashing Russia’s economic hardships is counter-productive. It would be better if the economic pain so many Russians are experiencing were given due coverage – and promptly addressed.
11. Moscow Times: Poll: Russian Parents Hope to Raise Doctors, Not Priests.
12. Paul Goble: Shadow Economy, Rural Self-Sufficiency Allowing Russia to Weather Sanctions, New Study Finds.
13. RFE/RL: Election Shifts Show Kremlin Wary Of Fallout From Recession.
14. Izvestia: Russian politicians debate merits of early parliamentary elections.
15. Moscow Times: Russian ‘Troll Farm’ Lawsuit Postponed When Defendant Fails to Show.
16. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, PUTIN AND THE FIFA INDICTMENTS — WHY DID PUTIN SAY SO MUCH? AT HEADBUTT MOMENT FOR RUSSIA, ROMAN ABRAMOVICH AND ALISHER USMANOV SHOW THEIR STUFF – WHAT STUFF?
17. Interfax: US aim to “contain” Russia, China a concern – Russian security official.
18. Russia Direct: Making sense of Xi Jinping’s and John Kerry’s visits to Russia. Think Tank Review: Russia’s evolving relationship with China and the potential significance of John Kerry’s visit to Sochi preoccupied the attention of Russian think tank experts in May.
19. TASS: Russian analysts call EU reaction to Moscow’s retaliatory stop lists hypocritical.
20. Carnegie Moscow Center: Alexander Baunov, Not Against Russia: Why the Eastern Partnership Makes Increasingly Less Sense.
21. www.opendemocracy.net: Sergei Markedonov, Transnistria: West Berlin of the post-Soviet world. How to play hardball: Ukraine’s parliament has revoked the agreement between Russia and Ukraine on the movement of Russian troops through Ukrainian territory to Transnistria.
22. Moscow Times: Mark Adomanis, Russians Can Learn From Polish Dissatisfaction.
23. Russia Insider: Lisa Marie White, Dear American ‘Liberals’: Everything You Think You Know About Russia Is Wrong. Russia is actually ahead of the United States on many issues championed by the American Left.

UKRAINE

24. New York Times: Fighting in Ukraine Eases, but Abuses Continue on Both Sides, U.N. Says.
25. Deutsche Welle: Despite distance, war takes toll on western Ukraine. In Ukraine’s west, long a bastion of pro-European sentiment, the war and economic crisis are shaking faith in the country’s leadership.
26. RFE/RL: Symbols of Ukraine’s Strength Hide Tensions in Kharkiv.
27. Carnegie Moscow Center: Thomas De Waal, Misha Takes Over Odessa.
28. TASS: Saakashvili as governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region may put fuse to Dniester powder keg.
29. Reconsidering Russia and the Former Soviet Union: Pietro A. Shakarian, The Georgian Who Would Be Governor: Saakashvili in Odessa.
30. Interfax-Ukraine: IMF worsens Ukraine’s GDP decline to 9% in 2015.
31. Segodnya (Kyiv): Ukrainian paper says West, Russia want to end war at Kiev’s cost.
32. Kyiv Post editorial: Bleed Ukraine slowly.
33. Interfax: LPR observes almost 30 attacks by Ukrainian army over past week.
34. Interfax-Ukraine: Petro Poroshenko Bloc calls for laying siege to militants-controlled Donbas territories.
35. Moskovskiy Komsomolets: Russia taking special measures to strengthen border with Ukraine – paper.
36. Gazeta.ru: Russian experts criticize bill classifying peacetime military casualties.
37. TASS: Russian arms producer ready to stage experiment to prove Buk-M1 missile hit flight MH17.
38. http://7mei.nl: Charles Wood, About Bellingcat’s claim: “Russian sat pics fake”
39. New York Times editorial: Vladimir Putin Hides the Truth.
40. Politico.com: Michael O’Hanlon, How to Save Ukraine.