RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2015-#18 table of contents with links :: Sunday 1 February 2015

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DJ: Still far away from home. A hurried issue of JRL.

Johnson’s Russia List
JRL 2015-#18 :: Sunday 1 February 2015
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1. Moscow Times: Russians Say They Fear Hunger, Unemployment and Nuclear War.
2. TASS: Share of Russians with positive attitude to United States down from 78% to 14% in 20 years.
3. Kyiv Post: Civilians arrive in Sloviansk as they escape city of hell.
4. Reuters: Ukraine peace talks collapse, Kiev and separatists trade blame.
5. Sputnik: Ukraine Contact Group Fails to Sign Agreement, DPR, LPR Envoys Say
6. www.rt.com: No breakthrough as Ukraine peace talk parties meet in Minsk amid worsening crisis.
7. www.rt.com: Top Kremlin official states deeper crisis in Ukraine is against Russian interests. (Sergey Ivanov)
8. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Fyodor Lukyanov, The hopelessness of self-determination. Veteran journalist shares his views on the worsening situation in Ukraine.
9. Russia Direct: More sanctions and a downgrade make it a tough week for Russia. Russian media roundup: The EU’s decision to extend its sanctions on Russia, parliamentary elections in Greece, a potential Russian exit from PACE and the downgrade of Russian debt to “junk” status all made headlines.
10. New York Times: Scholars at Odds on Ukraine. (re Stephen Cohen)
11. AAUP The Academe Blog: Hank Reichman, The Troubling Case of Professor Stephen Cohen and the American Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
12. The Nation: Stephen Cohen: Eastern Ukraine Is in an All-Out War.
13. Salon.com: Patrick Smith, Our dangerous new McCarthyism: Russia, Noam Chomsky and what the media’s not telling you about the new Cold War.
14. Russia Direct: Dominic Basalt, America’s Russian Studies programs: From Dostoevsky to derivatives. Russian Studies graduates in the United States need less 19th century literature, more 21st century finance.
15. Interfax: Gorbachev says USA draws Russia into “new cold war”
16. Business New Europe: CONFERENCE CALL: West needs new tactics to deal with Russia over Ukraine.
17. The National Interest: James Carden, Ukraine Exposed: Kiev’s Authoritarianism. Can the West continue to ignore the Kiev government’s disturbing behavior?
18. Moscow Times: James Beadle, Russia Will Weather This Financial Hurricane.
19. TASS: Russian analyst warns against stepping over red line in Russia-US relations. (Viktor Kremenyuk)
20. Reuters: Russian central bank makes surprise interest rate cut.
21. www.businessinsider.com: Morgan Stanley thinks Russia’s doomed.
22. www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org: Pavel Andreev, Russia may emerge stronger from the crisis.
23. Consortiumnews.com: Robert Parry, ‘Group-Thinking’ the World into a New War.
24. Interfax: Russian Defence Ministry again says it has no troops in Ukraine.
25. Sputnik: Ukraine Chief of Staff Admits No Russian Troops in Donetsk.
26. Business New Europe: Ukraine’s military mobilisation against rebels faces widespread draft-dodging.
27. Kyiv Post: Ukraine hides devastating losses as Russia-backed fighters surge forward.
28. TASS: Analysts say promises of cash unable to lure Ukrainians into Donbas war.
29. Sputnik: Inconvenient Truth: Hackers Reveal True Number of Ukrainian Army Casualties.
30. Fort Russ: Aleksandr Rodzhers, Ukraine After Poroshenko.
31. Cambridge Globalist: Raisa Ostapenko, The Success of Russia’s Propaganda: Ukraine’s ‘Banderovtsy’
32. Rossiya 1 (Moscow): Russian state TV report links Ukrainian premier with Church of Scientology.
33. Forbes.com: Doug Bandow, Ukraine’s Conflict With Russia Isn’t America’s Fight, Part 2.
34. Russian Foreign Ministry: Russian envoy speaks at UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine – transcript
35. The Economist: Russia and Ukraine. Understanding Putin’s plans. The Russian president is stepping up both the war in Ukraine and his confrontational rhetoric against NATO and the West.
36. Washington Post: Steven Pifer and Strobe Talbott, Ukraine needs America’s help.
37. The Age (Australia): Robert Horvath, Vladimir Putin’s apologists spread dangerous message. It is time for the West to recognise that the Putin regime is paranoid, irrational and dangerous. It cannot be appeased.
38. Washington Post: Christopher Walker and Robert Orttung, How Russia props up Putin in the polls.
39. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, ‘Putin’s brain’ says he doesn’t have Putin’s ear. Do we know who does? As fighting in Ukraine flares up again, one influential voice says that Putin has sidelined him. And Putin’s oligarch allies, smarting from Western sanctions, have reportedly lost influence as well.
40. http://gordonhahn.com: Gordon Hahn, INSIDE PUTIN’S HEAD: The Crisis in Russia and Ukraine and Worst-Case Putin Scenarios.
41. The Unz Review: Anatoly Karlin, Is Russia’s Demographic Recovery at Risk of Reversal?

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

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