RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2015-#80 table of contents with links :: Johnson’s Russia List – Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#80 :: Wednesday 22 April 2015
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RUSSIA

1. Business New Europe: Russia faces ‘new reality’ as it counts cost of Ukraine crisis, says Medvedev.
2. Government.ru: Government report on its performance in 2014. Report by Dmitry Medvedev.
3. Moscow Times: Poll: Russians Haven’t Been So Positive About Their Country in 5 Years.
4. Gallup.com: Russia Receives Lowest Approval in World; U.S. Highest.
5. Moskovskiy Komsomolets: Popular Russian daily gives critical analysis of Putin phone-in.
6. Novaya Gazeta: Russian liberal paper sees Putin avoiding difficult questions in latest phone-in.
7. Moscow Times: As Crisis Mounts, Russians Open Up Their Pocketbooks to Charities.
8. Moscow Times: Mark Galeotti, Snubbing Russia’s Victory Day Achieves Nothing.
9. New York Times: Unpaid Russian Workers Unite in Protest Against Putin.
10. http://readrussia.com: Mark Adomanis, Russian Economy as a Cockroach.
11. Interfax: Strengthening of ruble due to growth of oil prices over – Yudayeva.
12. Forbes.com: Kenneth Rapoza, Here’s How Much Russian Stock Values Have Eroded Since Sanctions.
13. RFE/RL: Some Who Left: A New Wave Of Russian Emigration.
14. Paul Goble: Muscovites Not Russians are the Problem, Shekhtman Says.
15. The Atlantic: Jill Dougherty, How the Media Became One of Putin’s Most Powerful Weapons. After decades of wielding Soviet-style hard power, Russia is developing a subtler form of influence.
16. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russia third in world in military spending, according to report.
17. Business New Europe: Nicholas Watson, BOOK REVIEW: The lessons Russia learnt in Chechnya. Re “Russia’s Wars in Chechnya 1994-2009” by Mark Galeotti.
18. www.rt.com: EU charges Gazprom with ‘abusing’ market position in Central & Eastern Europe.
19. Russia Direct: Artem Kureev, The end of the INF Treaty, or how to destroy the world in several minutes. As the U.S. continues to accuse the Kremlin of violating the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, a new arms race between Moscow and Washington looms on the horizon.
20. www.rt.com: Washington prepares for diplomatic war of attrition with Russia.
21. AFP: ISIS is ‘Russia’s greatest enemy,’ not US: Lavrov.
22. The National Interest: John Allen Gay, Countdown to War: The Coming U.S.-Russia Conflict. Putin and Obama think they’ve got this crisis contained. Two prominent experts say they may be wrong.
23. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Nikolay Kurkov, Yemen: Yet another friction point in the Russia-West relationship? The conflict between Houthi rebels and government forces in Yemen is just another manifestation of the regional rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which had earlier echoes in Syria and Iraq, say Russian observers. Meanwhile, Russia and the West have yet again found themselves on different sides of the conflict. How likely is a new confrontation between Moscow and the United States.

UKRAINE

24. UNICEF Connect: Children – the true victims of conflict in Ukraine.
25. Newsweek.com: Millions of Ukrainian Children at Risk From New Epidemics.
26. Moscow Times: Tefft Says Obama Would Be ‘Happy’ to Get Involved in Ukraine Peace Talks.
27. Interfax: No U.S. plans to deliver anti-tank systems to Ukraine – U.S. ambassador to Russia.
28. Bloomberg: Russia Says Ukraine Must Be ‘Neutral’ as It Accuses U.S., NATO.
29. TASS: Ukraine’s Kharkiv region begins construction of 14 fortifications.
30. UNIAN (Kiev): Surveillance cameras installed around Ukraine’s Kharkiv amid security concerns.
31. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Walled off: In non-rebel eastern Ukraine, frustrations with Kiev mount. No one in Russian-speaking Kharkiv wants to follow rebels into open revolt. But locals say Kiev has no idea how badly it’s aggravating the region with its initiatives, including the ‘Great Wall of Ukraine.’
32. Interfax: Miners break through security cordons near Ukrainian Presidential Administration building.
33. www.rt.com: Kiev says ‘no extreme right organizations in Ukraine’
34. The New York Review of Books: Tim Judah, Ukraine: Inside the Deadlock.
35. Business New Europe: Agriculture eases Ukraine’s economic pain.
36. RFE/RL: Champagne Tastes On Beer Incomes: Tax Declarations In Ukraine Suggest Enduring Corruption.
37. ICTV television (Kiev): Ukrainian TV examines high-profile murders, threat of “terrorist war”
38. The Vineyard of the Saker: Real world vs “TV reality” – is a war inevitable?
39. Counterpunch.org: Roger Annis, A Reporting Tour. In the War Zone of Eastern Ukraine.
40. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Ukraine crisis: We’re facing a Cold War mindset. Russian Ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko speaks out on the West-Russia relations.
41. Wall Street Journal: Stephen Sestanovich, From Putin, a New Tune on Ukraine?
42. Wall Street Journal: Notable & Quotable: Edward Lucas. Russia is winning because it is strong-willed, not because it is strong.
43. The London Review of Books: Peter Pomerantsev, Where is Ukraine?
44. Washington Post: Laurence Weinbaum, Confronting chilling truths about Poland’s wartime history.
45. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, SO LONG SIKLEBAUM – POLAND UNDER US PRESSURE OVER FAILURE OF WAR AGAINST EASTERN UKRAINE, RUSSIA.
46. Deutsche Welle: High-profile killings in Ukraine sow hatred.
47. www.rt.com: Margarita Simonyan, How mainstream propaganda works.
48. Cluborlov: Notes from a Funeral. (re funeral of Oles’ Buzina)