Tag: Russia

Ukraine Shows Liberal Project in Russia in Even Worse Shape than Nationalist One, Khramov Says

Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
Ukraine Map and Flag

(Window on Eurasia – Paul Goble – Staunton, June 18, 2014) Responding to suggestions that the possibilities for the promotion of an “enlightened” Russian nationalism” have been undermined by Vladimir Putin’s policies in Ukraine, Aleksandr Khramov says that the real problems lie with Russian liberals who behave in ways that alienate the population and make cooperation with nationalists almost impossible. […]

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Ukrainian ‘Black Hole’ Weighs Heavy On European Business in Russia

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Europe, EU, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
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(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Delphine d’Amora – June 18, 2014) Politics took front stage at the flagship conference of the Association of European Business, or AEB, on Tuesday, where foreign companies with committed interests in Russia grappled with the economic fallout of the unfolding crisis in Ukraine. Business as something relatively immune to political vacillations is a thing of […]

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RIA Novosti: Senior Russian MP calls for dissociation from USA on human rights issue

Human Rights, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
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(RIA Novosti – June 17, 2014) Head of the State Duma International Affairs Committee Aleksey Pushkov believes that it is time for Russia to admit a total divergence of opinions with the USA about the meaning of human rights, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported on 17 June. “It is time to record our complete dissociation from the USA […]

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Interfax: Russian official hopes Ukraine crisis will not end security cooperation with USA

Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
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(Interfax – June 17, 2014) First deputy director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Sergey Smirnov, has expressed hope that the events in Ukraine will not disrupt cooperation between the Russian and US security services, privately-owned news agency Interfax reported on 17 June. “We have always been cooperating, though sometimes, when some events are taking place, cooperation calms down. We […]

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RIA Novosti: Moscow to Hold New Gas Talks Only After Kiev Clears its Debt – Russian Energy Minister

Oil, Gas, Energy, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
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MOSCOW, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Moscow only intends to resume trilateral gas talks after Ukraine repays its debt for Russian gas supplies, Energy Minister Alexander Novak said Wednesday. “First of all, we expect payments to be made on the debt for November-December and April-May deliveries. Only after this would we consider having talks, if they are needed,” Novak told […]

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RIA Novosti: Opinion: Attack On Russian Embassy in Kiev Casts Doubt on Poroshenko Ability to Rule Country

Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
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WASHINGTON, June 18 (RIA Novosti), Lyudmila Chernova – The recent attack on the Russian Embassy in Kiev casts doubt on President Poroshenko’s ability to have a say in the government, Martin Sieff, an Irish-American veteran journalist and author believes. “It [the attack] will generate further tensions between the current government in Kiev and Russia. Besides, it throws further doubt on […]

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What’s Next As Kiev Crunches Rebels?

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
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(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Alexey Eremenko – June 18, 2014) As Ukrainian separatists concede imminent defeat unless Russian tanks roll in, it is time for Kiev to consider plans for reconciliation with the rebel regions, Russian and Ukrainian analysts said. Local elites that tacitly endorsed the separatists at first in hopes that they could be used as a bargaining […]

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Interfax: Poroshenko: Slovyansk to be encircled, armed opposition to be liquidated

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
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KYIV. June 18 (Interfax) – Ukrainian law enforcement units will encircle Slovyansk to liquidate the armed opposition and regain full control over the state border in eastern regions, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said. “We are taking resolute steps and conducting successful operations towards the restoration [of control] over the state border,” the president told reporters in Kyiv on Wednesday. “We […]

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Interfax: Accidents on Ukrainian gas pipelines to continue, not enough invested in maintenance

Oil, Gas, Energy, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
File Photo of Blue Flame from Natural Gas

(Interfax – June 18, 2014) Accidents on Ukraine’s gas transportation system will continue because not enough is being spent on maintenance, Gazprom Deputy CEO Vitaly Markelov told journalists, commenting on yesterday’s blast and fire on the Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline in Ukraine’s Poltava region. “The gas transportation system, ours and Ukraine’s, was created as a unified gas supply system. We have […]

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RIA Novosti: Ukraine’s Poroshenko Suggests Relieving Foreign Minister Deshchytsia from Post

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
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KIEV, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – President Petro Poroshenko has suggested dismissing acting Foreign Minister Andrii Deshchytsia, the Ukrainian parliament said Wednesday. The president has also nominated Ukraine’s Ambassador to Germany Pavlo Klimkin to take over the post of foreign minister. On Saturday, Deshchytsia shouted offensive remarks directed toward Russian President Vladimir Putin. The foreign minister was spotted chanting abusive […]

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Russia Beyond the Headlines: Press Digest: Kiev’s position on gas payments is ‘blackmail’

Media, Internet, Social Media, Television, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
Collage of Russian Newspapers

(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Darya Lyubinskaya, special to RBTH – June 17, 2014) RBTH presents a selection of views from leading Russian media on the latest gas crisis between Moscow and Kiev, which culminated yesterday with Russia cutting off supplies to Ukraine after talks had once again reached a dead end. Kommersant The gas issue was the […]

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RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#134 contents with links :: Tuesday 17 June 2014

JRL Tables of Contents, Russian News, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
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… 7. Carnegie Moscow Center: Balázs Jarábik, Poroshenko`s Team: Managers of the Nation?
8. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Russia cuts gas to Ukraine. But will Moscow take the bigger loss?
9. Business New Europe: Ben Aris, Exactly what is a fair price for Ukraine to pay for Russian gas?
10. Financial Times: Q&A: the Gazprom dispute. …

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The galloping militarisation of Eurasia

Foreign Policy, Security, Visas, Military
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(opendemocracy.net – Neil Melvin – June 16, 2014) Neil Melvin is director of the Armed Conflict and Conflict Management Programme at SIPRI In recent months, attention has overwhelmingly been focused on Moscow’s actions in Ukraine. But there is a wider and more disturbing process of militarisation underway throughout the Eurasian region. Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula and the deployment […]

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Why Diplomats Curse About Ukraine

Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
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(Bloomberg – bloomberg.com – Leonid Bershidsky – June 16, 2014) The escalating conflict in Ukraine marks an unfortunate tendency in the world of international relations: The people responsible for defusing the crisis are losing their ability to be diplomatic. The latest gaffe came June 14, when Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsia tried to calm a mob that had attacked the […]

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Russia’s Nationalist Fringe Takes Center Stage In Eastern Ukraine

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
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(RFE/RL – rferl.org – Tom Balmforth – KYIV June 17, 2014) Not long ago, Aleksandr Borodai was a little-known political consultant with nationalist leanings. Back in 1993, he was among those defending hard-liners barricaded inside the Russian White House in their showdown with President Boris Yeltsin. He wrote regularly for the ultranationalist newspaper “Zavtra” and in 2011 co-founded the “patriotic” online television channel Den-TV. […]

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Interfax: Russians losing interest in political opposition, say it is still needed – poll

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Russian Duma Building

MOSCOW. June 17 (Interfax) – Over a half of Russians (57%) believes Russia needs political opposition, Levada Center told Interfax. Yet their number has reduced significantly since 2012 (72%), the sociologists said. Twenty-three percent of respondents say Russia does not need political opposition and 20% are undecided. The need for opposition was mostly expressed by men (62% vs. 53% of […]

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Gazprom’s EU customers not at risk for now

Europe, EU, Oil, Gas, Energy, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
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(Business New Europe – bne.ru – Teneo Intelligence – June 17, 2014) Following the failure of negotiations on natural gas pricing and debt between Russia and Ukraine last weekend, Russian company Gazprom reduced supply volumes to Ukraine, the main transit country for gas delivered to Gazprom’s EU customers. However, Gazprom continues to deliver contracted amounts to the EU for now, […]

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Exactly what is a fair price for Ukraine to pay for Russian gas?

Oil, Gas, Energy, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
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(Business New Europe – bne.eu – Ben Aris in Moscow – June 16, 2014) [Charts here http://www.bne.eu/content/exactly-what-fair-price-ukraine-pay-russian-gas] Russia cut Ukraine off from gas deliveries on June 16 after the emergency talks at the weekend to strike a new price for gas failed. From now on Russia won’t deliver any gas unless Ukraine pays for it in advance. The row has […]

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Interfax: Poroshenko plans to regain control on Ukrainian-Russian border within a week

Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
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KYIV. June 16 (Interfax) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has announced the authorities’ intention to regain control of the Ukrainian-Russian border this week. “We are going to take decisive action to renew security on our national border this week. I hope we will fully succeed in doing so,” Poroshenko told a National Security and Defense Council meeting on Monday. The […]

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RIA Novosti: Lavrov Says West Must Influence Kiev to Implement OSCE Road Map

Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
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BELGRADE, June 17 (RIA Novosti) – Kiev has completely refused to implement the road map elaborated by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and the West must influence the Ukrainian authorities to resolve the situation in the country, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday. “Unfortunately, the Ukrainian authorities are so far refusing to support the road […]

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Interfax: Pushkov: Russia-Ukraine relations entering new stage, serious conflict looming

Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
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MOSCOW. June 17 (Interfax) – State Duma International Affairs Committee Chairman Alexei Pushkov suspects the U.S. has pushed Kyiv into refusing to pay for Russian gas. “Attacks on the Russian Embassy, yesterday’s attempt to attack the [Russian] Consulate in Odesa, the affront put upon the Russian president, the ongoing arrests of Russian journalists and the refusal to pay for gas, […]

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Press Digest: Public opinion grows ugly with attack on Russian embassy

Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
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(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Darya Lyubinskaya, special to RBTH – June 16, 2014) RBTH presents a selection of views from leading Russian media, featuring discussion of the significance of Saturday’s riots outside the Russian embassy in Kiev, Russia’s outrage over the West’s failure to condemn the acts, and NATO plans to offer Ukraine aid in reforming its […]

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Fifty-Eight Percent of Russians Oppose Russian Nationalist Groups inside Russia after Ukrainian Events

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
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(Window on Eurasia – Paul Goble – Staunton, June 16, 2014) In what might seem counter-intuitive but which in fact underscores the way Moscow media coverage of one thing may cause Russians to draw conclusions about others, 58 percent of Russians say that as a result of developments in Ukraine, they are more negative about nationalist groups in their own […]

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INTERVIEW: Andrei Sharonov – sweating the chernovniki

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Education, Academia
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(Business New Europe – bne.eu – Ben Aris in Moscow – June 17 2014) Summer has finally come to Moscow and the main hall in the Red October chocolate factory that sits on the River Moskva across from the Kremlin is buzzing with young workers flapping about in flip-flops or hunkered over computers writing code. This is ground zero for […]

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Interfax: Voting system invulnerable, but will require Russian-made software in future – Churov

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
File Image of Map of Russia for Polling Place Webcams

MOSCOW. June 17 (Interfax) – The head of the Russian Election Commission, Vladimir Churov, has confirmed the invulnerability of the state automated voting system “Vybory” (Elections) but added that in future the system will require Russian, not foreign, software to counter potential threats to it from abroad. “Currently our system (“Vybory”) is invulnerable, but we cannot do the next cycle […]

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Looking down the Russia-China pipeline from Beijing’s end

China, Oil, Gas, Energy
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(Business New Europe – bne.eu – COMMENT: Karine Hirn, Partner and Senior Advisor at East Capital – June 17, 2014) The $400bn Russian gas pipeline deal has been hailed as a game-changer for Russia, but what does it mean for China? Pipelines are the geopolitical equivalent of marriage and China has happily tied itself to Russia for the next 30 […]

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Russia-led security bloc turns away from NATO towards China, chief slams West

China, Foreign Policy, Security, Visas, Military, NATO
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(Interfax – Moscow, June 16, 2014) A decision has been taken at the CSTO [Collective Security Treaty Organization] to suspend attempts to establish dialogue with NATO, and the course has been mapped towards developing cooperation with the OSCE. “Given the situation, the council of foreign ministers (of the CSTO member states) deemed it advisable to suspend attempts to establish dialogue […]

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RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#133 contents with links :: Monday 16 June 2014

JRL Tables of Contents, Russian News, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
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… 36. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Putin’s War in Ukraine Marks Rebirth of Stalinism in Russia, Chubais Says. (Igor Chubais)
37. Reuters: Disciplined Russia to keep it tight against Korea. (soccer)
38. RFE/RL: Russia To Test Migrant Workers On Country’s History.
39. Interfax: NASA wishes to carry on ISS cooperation after 2020 – newspaper. …

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Russia To Test Migrant Workers On Country’s History

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, History, Soviet Union, Population Disaster, Demographics
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(RFE/RL – rferl.org – Farangis Najibullah and Umid Bobomatov – June 13, 2014) So you want to work in Russia? You may be a skilled bricklayer — but do you know when Ivan the Terrible reined in the boyars? Or when the Polish-Lithuanian forces were expelled from Muscovy? When Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg? No? Well you might want to start […]

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The Russian novel returns: Solovki prison, the defense industry, and an agronomist called Gogol

Life in Russia, Culture, Arts
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(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Georgy Manaev, RBTH – June 15, 2014) The shortlist for the ninth annual national literary prize “The Big Book” has been unveiled. This is Russia’s most influential literary award in mainstream prose and – with a prize fund of $174,000 – its most lucrative. The winners will be announced in November The jury […]

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Nagorno-Karabakh: Crimea’s doppelganger

Armenia, Azerbaijan, South Caucasus
Map of Armenia and Environs

(opendemocracy.net – Thomas de Waal – June 13, 2014) Thomas de Waal is a senior associate for the Caucasus at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) in Washington. He is the author of The Caucasus: An Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2010). His earlier books include Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus (NYU Press, 1999) – with Carlotta Gall; and Black […]

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Putin’s War in Ukraine Marks Rebirth of Stalinism in Russia, Chubais Says

JRL Tables of Contents, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
File Photo of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin

(Window on Eurasia – Paul Goble – Staunton, June 16, 2014) The Russian authorities have unleashed and are conducting a war in Ukraine, “a new type of war without declaration or a front line” and one that is simultaneously “destroying all official Soviet and post-Soviet myths and clarifying the real nature of the political regime in Russia,” according to Igor […]

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NEWSLINK: Meanwhile, Back in Ukraine; Tanks mysteriously roll in from Russia.

Arms Trade, Military Aid, Military, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
File Photo of Russian Tanks in Military Parade

[“Meanwhile, Back in Ukraine; Tanks mysteriously roll in from Russia” – Wall Street Journal editorial – June 16, 2014] The Wall Street Journal addresses claims of Russian material support for instability and revolution in Ukraine, including tanks: Waves of Russian tanks and divisions of infantrymen are one way to undermine the budding democracy in Kiev. But an overt invasion would force a reluctant America and […]

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Interfax: NASA wishes to carry on ISS cooperation after 2020 – newspaper

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
International Space Station file photo

MOSCOW. June 16 (Interfax) – The United States hopes to carry on the International Space Station (ISS) cooperation project with Russia after 2020, Izvestia wrote on Monday, quoting NASA ISS Flight Program Manager Sean Fuller. Fuller told the newspapers the partners had built a remarkable orbital laboratory and hoped to continue using it after 2020 for the sake of further […]

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Russia accuses West of “protecting” Ukraine at gas talks

Europe, EU, Oil, Gas, Energy, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
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(Interfax – Moscow, June 15, 2014) Moscow believes that there may be a third power behind Ukraine’s intransigent position in its talks with Russia over gas. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Russian journalists on Sunday [15 June] that the Ukrainian authorities are making use of “impunity because they are being protected by our Western partners, or at least some […]

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Russia cuts Ukrainian gas supplies

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
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(Business New Europe – bne.eu – June 16, 2014) Russia’s state-owned Gazprom cut Ukraine’s gas supply off at 10 a.m. Moscow time for failing to pay its bills after talks broke down ahead of a June 16 deadline. “This decision was taken due to systematic failure of Naftogaz Ukraine to pay,” Gazprom said in a statement. “The debt of the […]

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NEWSLINK: Russia’s Gazprom reduces gas to Ukraine after deadline passes

Oil, Gas, Energy, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
Gas Facility file photo

[“Russia’s Gazprom reduces gas to Ukraine after deadline passes” – Maria Kiselyova, Denis Pinchuk – June 16, 2014] Reuters reports on Russia’s move to ratchet back gas flows to Ukraine, with potential also to impact Russian gas supplies to the EU: Russian natural gas exporter Gazprom reduced supplies to Ukraine on Monday after Kiev failed to meet a deadline to […]

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Interfax: Conditions proposed to Ukraine on gas shipments better than those in place under Yanukovych – Miller

Oil, Gas, Energy, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
File Photo of Blue Flame from Natural Gas

GORKI. June 16 (Interfax) – The conditions that were proposed to Kyiv during gas talks were better than the conditions in place under former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, Gazprom (MOEX: GAZP) CEO Alexei Miller said at a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Firstly, the Russian side was ready to guarantee that the discount of $100 per 1,000 cubic […]

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Over 60,000 Ukrainians staying in Russia’s Rostov Region – local official

Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
Map of European Portion of Former Soviet Union

(Interfax – Rostov-na-Donu, June 15, 2014) Over 109,000 residents of southeastern areas of Ukraine entered Rostov Region between 4 and 14 June in view of the difficult situation in Donbass [Donetsk Region], chief of the information policy directorate of the government of Rostov Region Sergey Tyurin has told Interfax South [news] agency. “As of today, over 109,000 people have entered […]

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RIA Novosti: Europe Ready to Consider Opal Pipeline For Future Gas Supplies – Gazprom

Europe, EU, Oil, Gas, Energy
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MOSCOW, June 16 (RIA Novosti) – If Ukraine disrupts Russian gas transit via its territory, the European Commission is ready to negotiate increased deliveries through the Opal pipeline, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said Monday. “We have discussed this issue with the European Commission. It is now as follows: if we record problems with transit via the territory of Ukraine, then […]

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Interfax: Lavrov: attack on Kyiv embassy led by battalion set up by Kolomoisky

Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
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MOSCOW. June 15 (Interfax) – Members of the Azov battalion, which has been set up and is financed by tycoon Ihor Kolomoisky, the Dnipropertovsk governor, spearheaded Saturday’s “disgusting” attack on the Russian Embassy in Kyiv, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed on Sunday. “The leading role in the attack on the embassy was played by fighters from the Azov battalion, […]

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Interfax: Lavrov accuses Ukrainian interior minister of connivance with extremists

Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
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MINSK. June 16 (Interfax) – The behavior exhibited by Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov in the rampage in front of the Russian Embassy in Kyiv was an act of connivance with the actions of extremists, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. “Instead of ordering the police, policemen, to stop the act of vandalism against our Embassy, the interior minister made […]

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Igor Strelkov – Moscow agent or military romantic?

Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
Ukraine Map and Flag

(opendemocracy.net – David Marples – June 13, 2014) David Marples is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Canada. For summer 2014 he is Visiting Professor at the Slavic and Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan. Who is Igor Strelkov? He has power, but by whose authority? On 11 June, the self-proclaimed mayor of […]

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34th Annual U.S. – RUSSIA FORUM 2014: Advancing a Constructive Agenda for U.S. – Russia Relations

Events, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
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Subject: Washington DC: 34th Annual U.S. – RUSSIA FORUM 2014 Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 From: Edward Lozansky <lozansky@gmail.com> 34th Annual U.S. – RUSSIA FORUM 2014 Advancing a Constructive Agenda for U.S. – Russia Relations June 16 – 17, 2014 Washington, DC The current crisis in Ukraine, which many see as the beginning of a new era of U.S. – […]

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RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#132 contents with links :: Sunday 15 June 2014

JRL Tables of Contents, Russian News, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
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[check back for updates, including more links; links also posted to facebook and twitter] Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#132 :: 15 June 2014 E-Mail: davidjohnson@starpower.net A project of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George  Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs: www.ieres.org JRL homepage: russialist.org JRL on Facebook: facebook.com/russialist  JRL on Twitter: twitter.com/JohnsonRussiaLi Support JRL: russialist.org/funding.php 1. In Moscow’s Shadows: Mark Galeotti, Those Mysterious Tanks in Ukraine. 2. […]

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“We assess that separatists in eastern Ukraine have acquired heavy weapons and military equipment from Russia, including Russian tanks and multiple rocket launchers.”

Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
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US Department of State June 13, 2014 State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf: “We assess that separatists in eastern Ukraine have acquired heavy weapons and military equipment from Russia, including Russian tanks and multiple rocket launchers.”

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RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#130 contents with links :: Thursday 12 June 2014

JRL Tables of Contents, Russian News
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… 24. Deutsche Welle: Ukraine’s information war
25. www.opendemocracy.net: Joanna Szostek, The limitations of Russian propaganda in Ukraine. Russian TV is waging a propaganda war against Ukraine. But is it working?
26. EuromaidanPR.com: More Russian terrorists arrive in Ukraine. …

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Press Digest: Strategic plan needed from Russia for Donetsk and Lugansk

Media, Internet, Social Media, Television, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
Collage of Russian Newspapers

(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Darya Lyubinskaya, special to RBTH – June 11, 2014) RBTH presents a selection of views from leading Russian media, featuring discussion of the need for Russia to develop a coherent strategy on supporting the Donetsk and Lugansk “republics”, Poroshenko’s “humanitarian corridor” and the prospects for a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, and the surprising […]

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Transnistria is a bridge too far for Russia

Moldova
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(opendemocracy.net – Pål Kolstø – June 11, 2014) Pål Kolstø is a professor of Russia, Central Europe and the Balkans in the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages at the University of Oslo, Norway. The breakaway republic – de facto state – of Transnistria has steadily been edging closer and closer to Russia, but the Kremlin does not […]

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Oligarchic Capitalism Blamed for Loss of Russia’s Position in Former Soviet Republics

CIS, Customs Union, Eurasian Union, History, Soviet Union
Map of Former Soviet Union

(Window on Eurasia – Paul Goble – Staunton, June 12, 2014) The Russian Federation, by focusing on the construction of “oligarchic capitalism,” essentially “threw all the union republics” to their own fates, and as a result, the governments and peoples have turned away from Moscow and ethnic Russians are fleeing back to Russia, thus further undermining Russian influence. That harsh […]

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