Category: Newslinks
NEWSLINK Kyiv Post: Analyst says Russian propaganda destroyed border between fact, fiction. (Peter Pomerantsev)
NEWSLINK The National Interest/Thomas Graham: “Russia’s Syria Surprise (And What America Should Do about It)”
[featured image is file photo] “Russian pride will not allow Moscow to join a U.S.-led coalition, but we should be able to work in parallel, coordinating air strikes and other actions for maximum effect in degrading ISIS.”
» Read moreNEWSLINK Moscow Times/Andre Rogger: Giving Russia’s Artistic Talent a Helping Hand
NEWSLINK The National Interest/ Nikolas K. Gvosdev: “Moscow’s Moves in Syria: 5 Messages Russia Is Sending to the World”
NEWSLINK National Public Radio (NPR): As Warm Days Wane In Moscow, An ‘Air Of Desperate Celebration’
NEWSLINK Washington Post/Lawrence Summers: “Why Ukraine’s debt deal is important not just for Ukraine, but for the West”
NEWSLINK Christian Science Monitor: “Russia in Syria: Ghosts of Afghanistan may limit Kremlin’s options now.”
Memories of the Soviet Army’s failure in Afghanistan still haunt the Russian public – making a major deployment to Syria almost unthinkable, Russian experts say.
» Read moreNEWSLINK New York Times: “Why Russians Hate America. Again.”
NEWSLINK Sarah Lindemann-Komarova: “Running for Office in Siberia: Part VI: The Home Stretch. A series on the District #35 Election for Novosibirsk City Council”
NEWSLINK Kyiv Post: Russians at YES conference say Russia’s economic weakness likely makes it less threatening [Yevgenia Albats and Vladimir Inozemtsev]
NEWSLINK Time magazine: Inside Vladimir Putin’s Circle. The dangerous rise of Kremlin hard-liners
NEWSLINK The National Interest: Russia’s Financial System: How Vulnerable? Collapse is not in the cards. [Sergey Aleksashenko]
NEWSLINK The Economist: Russia’s opposition. Lonely but not lost. A Russia after Putin is hard to imagine right now but one man is trying. [Alexei Navalny]
NEWSLINK Christian Science Monitor: Georgia ex-President Saakashvili makes play to be prime minister – in Ukraine
Mikheil Saakashvili came to Ukraine to be Odessa’s governor at President Poroshenko’s request. But now he’s picking a very public fight with PM Yatsenyuk.
» Read moreNEWSLINK New York Times/David Brooks: “The Russia I Miss”
NEWSLINK Sarah Lindemann-Komarova: Running for Office in Siberia: Part V: Let the Games Begin A series on the District #35 Election for Novosibirsk City Council
NEWSLINK Reuters: Why do Vladimir Putin and his Kremlin cronies look so nervous?
NEWSLINK Washington Post: Mr. Putin makes moves in Syria, exploiting America’s inaction
NEWSLINK Wall Street Journal: The Rewards of the Obama Doctrine. Offering a helping hand to America’s enemies in Iran, Russia and Cuba will ruin lives and many more will die.
NEWSLINK Christian Science Monitor: No flowers for teacher on the first day? Russians feel the pinch. School costs – uniforms, notebooks, gym clothes – are soaring in recession-hit Russia, and pupils and parents are griping over the unwelcome changes in their classrooms
NEWSLINK Kyiv Post: Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute shapes US view on Ukraine
NEWSLINK Wall Street Journal: Russia Says Economy Recovery Slow in Coming; Finance Ministry predicts return to growth only late this year or early next
NEWSLINK Wall Street Journal: For Russia, Oil Collapse Has Soviet Echoes. Dependence on oil and gas revenue has undermined Russia’s long-term economic fortunes.
NEWSLINK Interfax-Ukraine: New military doctrine calls Russia Ukraine’s military adversary, stipulates NATO membership
NEWSLINK Financial Times: “Ukraine: Costs of conflict. A debt deal agreed with the IMF and creditors averted default but the war-torn country’s worries are far from over.”
NEWSWLINK Christian Science Monitor: Amid violence in Kiev, Ukraine tries to find a ‘decentralized’ peace
Ukraine’s parliament took a first step toward granting powers to rebel regions. But deadly clashes in the capital show the depth of resistance to such changes.
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