UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#242 :: Friday PM 11 December 2015

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#242
Friday PM 11 December 2015

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1. AFP: Chaos and corruption on demarcation line in east Ukraine.
2. Ukraine Today: Yanukovych tells about assassination attempt, announces launch of website.
3. Sputnik: Incumbent Ukraine Top Officials Behind Maidan Civilian Deaths.
4. Sputnik: Ousted Ukrainian President Yanukovych Denies Moscow’s $15 Bln Loan ‘Bribe’
5. Reuters: Ukraine Lawmaker Manhandles PM Yatseniuk in Rowdy Parliament Scenes.
6. Kyiv Post: Accusations build against Yatsenyuk’s team as critics mount drive to get him fired.
7. TASS: Ukraine’s PM says he won’t resign on his own.
8. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Comment by the Information and Press Department on the recent report of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine.
9. Centre for International Policy Studies (Canada): Paul Robinson, West Politicizes IMF to Support Ukraine.
10. The Economist: Corruption in Ukraine. Making Joe Biden mad as hell. Ukraine is not punishing its criminals. The West is getting tired of nagging it.
11. The International New York Times editorial: Joe Biden Lectures Ukraine.
12. Kyiv Post editorial: Biden time.
13. TASS: Donetsk republic announces resuming coal supplies to Ukraine.
14. Interfax: Putin orders resumption of coal supplies to Ukraine.
15. Wall Street Journal: Kiev Remains an Economic Lifeline for Separatist-Held East. Even after separatists fought to carve out their own quasi-state, the mining region still needs Ukraine to buy its coal.
16. Kyiv Post: Power supply to Crimea partly restored, but blackout threats still loom.
17. TASS: Russian-Ukrainian carrier rocket orbits weather satellite.
18. Ukraine Today: Progress after Euromaidan: ‘Values have changed even if we haven’t seen concrete reforms’

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Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia

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