RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2015-#86 table of contents with links :: Johnson’s Russia List – Thursday, April 30, 2015
Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#86 :: Thursday 30 April 2015
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RUSSIA
1. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Moving to the rhythm: Russia’s growing love affair with dance.
2. Euromaidan Press: Paul Goble, Putin’s Personality Cult Exceeds Stalin’s ‘by Every Measure,’ Kantor Says.
3. Delfi (The Lithuanian Tribune): Marius Laurinavičius, The Russians are coming to occupy the Baltic states.
4. www.rt.com: ‘My breathing mom was among corpses’: Putin recalls his parents’ WWII ordeal.
5. Kremlin.ru: Meeting with Government members.
6. Russia Insider: Alexander Mercouris, A Home for Every Russian: How Putin Delivers on the Russian Dream. Russia is in the throws of a housing boom that is transforming the country and hugely increasing its sense of well-being but which has gone completely unreported in the West.
7. Fortune: Chris Matthews, Russia’s economy: In better shape than you might think.
8. Wall Street Journal: Russia’s Beloved Borscht Reveals Reality of Inflation. Retired Siberian journalist tracks ingredients to document the country’s soaring food prices.
9. Moscow Times: Chris Weafer, Like It or Not, Russian Economy Needs the West.
10. Moscow Times: Russian Businessman Buys Moscow Times and Vedomosti Newspapers.
11. Russia Direct: Sergey Markedonov, The Kadyrov scandal: Fear and loathing in Chechnya. The Kremlin appears to be ignoring the latest provocative and threatening statements coming from Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov – at least for now.
12. www.rt.com: CNN broadcasting in Russia again following 4-month break.
13. Moscow Times: Russia’s Media Offensive Seen by the West as Real Threat.
14. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, AUDITIONS FOR KREMLIN PRE-SELECTION – NEW POLITICAL TECHNOLOGY, NO VOTERS, NO JOKE.
15. RFE/RL: The Worst Job In The World? Meet NATO’s Envoy To Russia.
16. Antiwar.com: Justin Raymond, Who Hacked the White House? The Russia-haters are sure they know.
17. http://gordonhahn.com: Gordon Hahn, Dirty-Deal Democratizers, the ‘War of Values with Russia,’ and Problems of Democracy-Promotion.
UKRAINE
18. Deutsche Welle: World Bank forecasts massive Ukraine economy contraction.
19. World Bank: Reforms are the Best Antidote to Exogenous Shocks Confronting Ukraine, Says World Bank.
20. http://newcoldwar.org: Survey shows most Ukrainians want a negotiated settlement to the war in eastern Ukraine. Summary of a survey conducted by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.
21. Kyiv Post: Wish Lists: West tells Ukraine to speed up its reforms.
22. TASS: Ukraine’s hope for financial downpour from EU fails to come true.
23. Business New Europe: Ukraine faces challenges of coalition infighting, devolution.
24. TASS: Ukraine’s Right Sector nationalists look set to shrug off Kiev’s control.
25. Ukraine Today: Relics of the Soviet Union: Ukraine’s plan to create a museum of totalitarianism.
26. Bloomberg: Leonid Bershidsky, Putin Needs Neither War Nor Peace in Ukraine.
27. www.rt.com: Deputy DM completely rules out war between Russia & Ukraine.
28. Russia Direct: Dmitry Polikanov, The inconvenient truth about Russia’s Ukrainian refugees. As the flow of refugees from Eastern Ukraine increases to the southern regions of Russia, the indignation of locals – who are becoming more and more reluctant to host Ukrainians – is also growing. Can it lead to social tensions and give another impetus to end the Ukrainian crisis?
29. Moscow Times: ‘Russia is the Motherland of Crimea’ – What Crimean Schoolchildren Think.
30. AFP: `Fascists` or heroes? How WWII history divides Ukraine.
31. Russia Insider: Alevtina Rea, Ukraine Pays a Terrible Price for Banderaism. As the Ukrainian government that seized power in the coup rewrites Ukraine’s history, it commits an ever-widening circle of atrocities in conformity with the ideology of Stepan Bandera that it has adopted.
32. The Blog Mire: Rob Slane, Are you a Ukrainophobe?
33. Voxukraine.com: A Must-Read. John Herbst Speech at JCE Conference: It’s Not Russia Against the West, It’s Reaction Against the Future.
34. TASS: Hacktivists post info pointing to security service’s hand in Ukraine journalist murder.
35. www.todayszaman.com: Iryna Holovko, Ukraine’s Other Chernobyls.
36. Interfax: U.S. to deploy bases in Ukraine after peacekeeping mission – Russian Deputy Defense Minister.
37. AP: US now sees Russia directing Ukraine’s rebels.
38. www.rt.com: Russia blasts fresh US allegations on anti-aircraft systems in Ukraine as ‘viral stupidity’
39. www.nakedcapitalism.com: John Helmer: Ukraine Readies Itself for War When No One Wants to Pay for It.
