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- UK seeking to ensure Russia sanctions do not harm City of London (oops.)
- As China looks on, Putin poses risky dilemma for the West (articles like this make me wonder if journalists just randomly name drop china sometimes to get hits, ngl, even tho it kinda highlights what's actually at stake for the washington side of "the west".)
- Moscow unfazed by ruble depreciation (important economic info i'd never heard abt tbh)
- US-Europe rifts surfacing as Putin tightens Crimea grip
- U.S. and EU marshal economic tools to punish Russia (2nd half provides awesome overlook of the energy/$ potential situation, it's gr8)
- UKRAINE CRISIS: KEEP YOUR EYES ON ANGELA MERKEL
- Putin agrees to Ukraine 'fact-finding' mission after talk with Merkel
- Netanyahu @ the White House, March (ot but relevant bc of Iran) | Addressing AIPAC ("America and Israel stand for life," Netanyahu said. "We stand together on the right side of the moral divide. We stand together on the right side of history.")
- Bacevich interview to DW about Pentagon budget cuts
- Reuters article on the Merkel-Putin relationship
- How migh sanctions affect Russia?
- Ukraine's Soviet History holding it back
- Russia, West trade accusations over 1994 Ukraine deal
- Si vis paces, para bellum
- Is NATO expansion to blame for Crimean crisis?
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- http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/04/us-ukraine-crisis-idUSBREA1Q1E820140304 (A Kremlin aide said that if the United States did impose sanctions, Moscow might drop the dollar as a reserve currency and refuse to repay loans to U.S. banks.)
- http://www.rferl.org/content/the-crimean-war-redux/25284132.html
http://blogs.reuters.com/john-lloyd/2014/02/28/ukraine-is-putins-great-test/
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Ukraine-Unexpected-Oil-Find-Major-Gas-Interest.html
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/03/03/the-power-of-sanctions-against-putin-on-ukraine/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/03/us-ukraine-crisis-nato-meeting-idUSBREA221VS20140303 --- Poland requests more NATO consultations over Russia
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/03/03/putins-gangland-politics/
U.S. says Russia-Iran oil-for-goods will not go ahead for now - http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/02/04/iran-russia-usa-idUKL2N0L915N20140204
- http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/04/us-ukraine-crisis-visegrad-idUSBREA231FW20140304 ("The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia are appalled to witness a military intervention in 21st century Europe akin to their own experiences in 1956, 1968 and 1981," read a statement issued by the prime ministers of Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, known as the Visegrad Four).
- http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/putins-crimean-landgrab-does-not-presage-a-return-of-the-soviet-empire-but-will-shut-russia-out-of-ukraine-9195463.html (If he now goes further and assists the secession of the eastern borderland of Ukraine around Donetsk, the rump state could paradoxically become a stronger, more consolidated, entity than it was before. This truncated Ukraine, shorn of most of its Russian minority, will not face two ways. It will see its future as lying alongside Poland and Germany inside the EU and Nato – not alongside Russia and Belarus in Mr Putin’s projected union of ex-Soviet republics.)
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/as-kiev-braces-to-lose-crimea-many-also-disappointed-in-the-west/2014/03/16/86fe05be-ad29-11e3-b8b3-44b1d1cd4c1f_story.html
"Many here are citing the 1994 Budapest Memorandum in which the United States, Britain and Russia reaffirmed their commitment to Ukraine’s territorial sovereignty after the break-up of the Soviet Union, and in which Kiev agreed to surrender its nuclear stockpile. Russia has broken its part of the bargain, Kiev says, and the interim government here has sought to invoke the memorandum in appeals for Western aid. In the West, however, officials have made clear that the document is not a binding treaty of mutual defense, but more of a general commitment for unspecified support."
- http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/21/us-ukraine-crisis-gunvor-putin-idUSBREA2K08720140321
Putin said this month he believed the West "crossed the line" in Ukraine after leaked audio recordings have shown U.S. diplomats discussing how to oust Kremlin-backed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich and which pro-Western politicians should form the new government.
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4ever updating this one for convenience
************ Russian asset freeze talk is empty rhetoric (The U.S. and Europe consider an asset freeze to punish Putin’s actions in Crimea. Breakingviews says they should address banks’ eagerness to accept shady money from Russia instead.)
************ Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine bolsters the case for easing restrictions on exports of the U.S.’s booming natural gas production, according to energy analysts and industry groups. (x)
- As China looks on, Putin poses risky dilemma for the West (articles like this make me wonder if journalists just randomly name drop china sometimes to get hits, ngl, even tho it kinda highlights what's actually at stake for the washington side of "the west".)
- Moscow unfazed by ruble depreciation (important economic info i'd never heard abt tbh)
- US-Europe rifts surfacing as Putin tightens Crimea grip
- U.S. and EU marshal economic tools to punish Russia (2nd half provides awesome overlook of the energy/$ potential situation, it's gr8)
- UKRAINE CRISIS: KEEP YOUR EYES ON ANGELA MERKEL
- Putin agrees to Ukraine 'fact-finding' mission after talk with Merkel
- Netanyahu @ the White House, March (ot but relevant bc of Iran) | Addressing AIPAC ("America and Israel stand for life," Netanyahu said. "We stand together on the right side of the moral divide. We stand together on the right side of history.")
- Bacevich interview to DW about Pentagon budget cuts
- Reuters article on the Merkel-Putin relationship
- How migh sanctions affect Russia?
- Ukraine's Soviet History holding it back
- Russia, West trade accusations over 1994 Ukraine deal
- Si vis paces, para bellum
- Is NATO expansion to blame for Crimean crisis?
------------------------------------------------------------------to organize l8er---------------------------------------------------------
- http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/04/us-ukraine-crisis-idUSBREA1Q1E820140304 (A Kremlin aide said that if the United States did impose sanctions, Moscow might drop the dollar as a reserve currency and refuse to repay loans to U.S. banks.)
- http://www.rferl.org/content/the-crimean-war-redux/25284132.html
http://blogs.reuters.com/john-lloyd/2014/02/28/ukraine-is-putins-great-test/
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Ukraine-Unexpected-Oil-Find-Major-Gas-Interest.html
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/03/03/the-power-of-sanctions-against-putin-on-ukraine/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/03/us-ukraine-crisis-nato-meeting-idUSBREA221VS20140303 --- Poland requests more NATO consultations over Russia
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/03/03/putins-gangland-politics/
U.S. says Russia-Iran oil-for-goods will not go ahead for now - http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/02/04/iran-russia-usa-idUKL2N0L915N20140204
- http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/04/us-ukraine-crisis-visegrad-idUSBREA231FW20140304 ("The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia are appalled to witness a military intervention in 21st century Europe akin to their own experiences in 1956, 1968 and 1981," read a statement issued by the prime ministers of Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, known as the Visegrad Four).
- http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/putins-crimean-landgrab-does-not-presage-a-return-of-the-soviet-empire-but-will-shut-russia-out-of-ukraine-9195463.html (If he now goes further and assists the secession of the eastern borderland of Ukraine around Donetsk, the rump state could paradoxically become a stronger, more consolidated, entity than it was before. This truncated Ukraine, shorn of most of its Russian minority, will not face two ways. It will see its future as lying alongside Poland and Germany inside the EU and Nato – not alongside Russia and Belarus in Mr Putin’s projected union of ex-Soviet republics.)
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/as-kiev-braces-to-lose-crimea-many-also-disappointed-in-the-west/2014/03/16/86fe05be-ad29-11e3-b8b3-44b1d1cd4c1f_story.html
"Many here are citing the 1994 Budapest Memorandum in which the United States, Britain and Russia reaffirmed their commitment to Ukraine’s territorial sovereignty after the break-up of the Soviet Union, and in which Kiev agreed to surrender its nuclear stockpile. Russia has broken its part of the bargain, Kiev says, and the interim government here has sought to invoke the memorandum in appeals for Western aid. In the West, however, officials have made clear that the document is not a binding treaty of mutual defense, but more of a general commitment for unspecified support."
- http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/21/us-ukraine-crisis-gunvor-putin-idUSBREA2K08720140321
Putin said this month he believed the West "crossed the line" in Ukraine after leaked audio recordings have shown U.S. diplomats discussing how to oust Kremlin-backed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich and which pro-Western politicians should form the new government.
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4ever updating this one for convenience
************ Russian asset freeze talk is empty rhetoric (The U.S. and Europe consider an asset freeze to punish Putin’s actions in Crimea. Breakingviews says they should address banks’ eagerness to accept shady money from Russia instead.)
************ Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine bolsters the case for easing restrictions on exports of the U.S.’s booming natural gas production, according to energy analysts and industry groups. (x)
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extremely accurate. it's not even his backyard, it's more like his foyer. a lot of ukrainian oligharcs are ethinic russian, a lot of senior ukrainian military personnel are ethinic russian and/or worked with the russian military during the soviet union.
he's not deluded, he's corrupt. and he's not happy about losing ukraine of all countries to the west's sphere of influence. (the united states wouldn't be either - see cuba and panama, only ukraine is more like mexico and canada, geographically.)
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/03/russia-vladimir-putin-the-west-104134.html#ixzz2up9KioPS - this isn't a perfect article, but it's good enough for an overlook (and well written), if you want to know more.