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Investigator: Audio Retrieved From Plane
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 11:01 PM

NYT > Europe

Rémi Jouty, director of France’s Bureau of Investigation and Analysis, confirmed that audio of voices had been recovered from the black box in the crash of the Germanwings plane in the French Alps.

Arrests in Ukraine Are Seen on Live TV
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 11:00 PM

NYT > Europe

The head of the Ukrainian state emergency service, Serhiy Bochkovsky, and his deputy, Vasiliy Stoyetsky, were arrested and charged with corruption during a televised government meeting.

Европарламент одобрил кредит Украине на сумму €1,8 млрд - РБК
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 11:00 PM

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Ukraine’s stability under threat after president fires pro-Kiev tycoon by Karoun Demirjian
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 10:59 PM

KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko dismissed one of the country’s most powerful oligarchs from a regional governorship Wednesday, after confrontations over interests in the energy sector sparked a public uproar, threatening the country’s fragile political peace.Read full article >>

К расследованию убийства Бориса Немцова подключат лингвистов - Радиостанция ЭХО МОСКВЫ
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 10:59 PM

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К расследованию убийства Бориса Немцова подключат лингвистов
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Мне известно, что некий гражданин Путин Владимир Владимирович называл Немцова и ему подобных национал-предателями, "пятой колонной", а также призывал бороться с ними. Эти высказывания нельзя расценивать иначе, как призыв к расправе с неугодными личностями.

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Two of Russia’s Greatest Misfortunes – Roads and Fools – Once Again Come Together by paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 10:58 PM

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Staunton, March 24 – Even though the Russian government currently repairs less than one percent of its horrific roads in many regions, Moscow has announced plans to build a superhighway and rail line extending across the Russian north to the Bering Straits and a tunnel to Alaska, a project in which enormous sums will be stolen and little else is likely to happen.

Vladimir Yakunin, the head of Russian Railways who attracted notice recently for his very public refusal to make a public declaration of his income, announced this week that the Kremlin has decided to develop what he called the Trans-Eurasian Belt that will link by road and rail European Russia to the Bering Straits.

He said that the project which because it will involve thousands of kilometers of road and rail over permafrost, bridges over major rivers and an enormous network of tunnels will cost “trillions and trillions” of US dollars and not be completed for several decades but that it was justified by “civilizational reasons” (siberiantimes.com/business/investment/news/n0160-plans-for-new-transport-route-unveiled-to-link-pacific-with-atlantic/).

This project, Yakunin said, is “an inter-state, inter-civilization project … an alterantive to the current neo-liberal model which has caused a systemic crisis. [It] should be turned into a world ‘future zone,’ and it must be based on leading technologies” not simply those intended to allow Russia to catch up.

The railway chief said this project “could become the GOELRO of the 21stcentury,” a reference to “the large-scale electrification of Russia proposed by Lenin and Stalin between 1920 and 1935.”

But Yakunin’s announcement immediately provoked dissent. Many questioned where the money could come from and even where it would go, likely into the pockets of Russian officials and their business partners; others pointed out that the route could not be profitable at any conceivable point; and still others that perhaps China would benefit but not Russia (russianrealty.ru/analytic/articles/rr/572759/). (forum-msk.org/material/news/10751356.html).

Some even suggested that Yakunin’s project was nothing more than the latest Soviet-style gigantist project that might have propaganda value but would do nothing else for the country and its people. But the most serious criticism took the form of complaints about what Moscow isn’t accomplishing on either every-day or other mega-projects.

One such report featured pictures of Russia’s anything but good roads, and another said that less than one percent of the roads in some regions were being repaired in any given year. Until that situation is corrected, writers asked, why should money flow into new projects that will never be finished or used? (sobkorr.ru/news/551011D3AD79E.html).

Another commentator pointed out that Moscow is finding it hard to come up with the money for a seven kilometer-long bridge to Crimea and said that was a symptom of a system that shouldn’t be proposing any more giant projects of the kind the Russian railways head and his Kremlin supporters have now come up with (forum-msk.org/material/news/10751356.html).

And he continued, “the Olympic M4 highway still hasn’t been finished; it simply ends 70 kilometers beyond Krasnodar … there are no roads [there] allowing the supplying of Crimea … From Moscow to Leningrad there isn’t a highway but a complete adventure. It is impossible to get around Moscow without hours-long delays.”

“This is a world power?” he asked plaintively.

But the most devastating comment about the absurdity of the latest link up of fools and roads in Russia came from another quarter: RBC released a new study about Skolkovo, the much-hyped Russian effort to create a Silicon Valley research center within Russia (daily.rbc.ru/special/business/23/03/2015/5509710a9a7947327e5f3a18).

Having asked “whatever became of Skolkovo?” the authors concluded that a great deal of money had been allocated but that a large part of that had disappeared without much to show for it – the typical outcome of such Russian super-projects that initially attract so much interest and even support but then gradually peter out, like Russian roads, into nothing.

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Russia Grants New Broadcast License To CNN
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 10:58 PM

Russia has issued a new broadcast license to CNN, nearly three months after the international news station went off the air due to restrictions on foreign-owned media.

Russia fails in bid to stop UN staff benefits for all gay couples - Reuters
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 10:56 PM

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Russia is flexing its muscles in Central America - Business Insider
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 10:56 PM

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How do you thaw US-Russia relations? Launch them into the frozen depths of space by Alan Yuhas in Washington
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 10:56 PM

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Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko will spend a year together on the International Space Station and conduct research into the feasibility of a manned Mars mission

Their respective countries may be going through one of the worst periods of hostility since the end of the cold war, but this week an American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut will fly up to the International Space Station to spend a year on board together.

Despite the enmities of the cold war and the frigid relations of their governments today, scientists and astronauts from Nasa and its Russian equivalent, Roscosmos, have a fruitful and friendly history of recent cooperation. As the US government has cut space program funding, for instance, Nasa has turned to its Russian counterpart to assist with mission logistics such as sharing a launch pad.

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Российский генерал попал под обстрел на востоке Украины, а сотрудник РЕН ТВ получил ранения - NEWSru.com
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 10:55 PM

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Ukraine pleads to restructure its debts quickly by Larry Elliott
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 10:55 PM

Russia | The Guardian

Finance minister Natalie Jaresko wants to see debt cut and interest on remainder reduced so Ukraine can move towards stability

Ukraine could be forced into a damaging default unless talks to restructure its debts are concluded successfully and speedily, the country’s finance minister warned on Tuesday.

Natalie Jaresko said all her country’s creditors were aware of the critical nature of the negotiations designed to help stabilise an economy crippled by recession, corruption, mismanagement, and war.

Kremlin heads for collision course with Ukraine over debt haircut by Mehreen Khan
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 10:54 PM

Kiev's finance minister insists the country has no choice but to restructure $3bn owed to Moscow

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Jordan, Russia Sign $10 Billion Deal on Nuclear Power Plant - ABC News
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 10:54 PM

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Before Crimea, Half of Russia’s Most Successful Young Wanted to Emigrate Rather than Seek Political Change, Gudkov Saysby paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 10:54 PM

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Staunton, March 24 – Fifty percent of the most entrepreneurial and successful young Russians were thinking about emigration in the years running up to the Crimean Anschluss because they did not see any future for themselves in Vladimir Putin’s Russia or any chance that they would be able to change the country’s course, according to Lev Gudkov.

That represents a major change from the pre-2008 situation when those most wanting to leave were both fewer in number and less successful, but it has been at least in part reversed by the patriotic wave that swept the country following the annexation of Crimea, the Levada Center head tells “Nezavisimaya gazeta” (ng.ru/ng_politics/2015-03-24/9_migration.html).

If as the euphoria about Crimea wears off and that decline is again reversed – something that appears to be happening -- it will mean that Russia risks losing “its most successful and creative citizens” and the Russian opposition is losing many in the “middle class” cadres it has been counting on to mount a challenge to the increasingly harsh Putin regime.

Indeed, while the sociologist did not speculate on this point, it may even be possible that the looming loss of these highly skilled people was one of the reasons that led Putin to act as he did in Ukraine.

Only a relatively small share of the population, of course, has ever been really interested in emigration, the Levada Center head points out. After 1991, the first wave included mostly ethnic minorities; and the second, those who had lost their jobs as a result of reforms. Together, these amounted to some 3.5 million people.

But the crisis of 2008 and its economic and political fallout have changed the situation, the sociologist says, and now it is the members of what may be called “the middle class” who are ready to leave, precisely “the most successful, entrepreneurial, and well-placed groups who have achieved success here in Russia.”

“The growth of such attitudes became especially marked as spring 2011 approached,” he continues, “when it became clear that Putin was returning and that the political system would become ever harsher, that no innovative reforms could be expected, and all the reforms announced by Medvedev about a legal state and innovations were empty promises and hot air.”

Even for the population as a whole, the percentage of Russians saying they were thinking seriously about emigration rose from 11 percent in the early 2000s to 22 to 23 percent at that time, but among the educated and successful under-35-year-olds, that measure rose to nearly half, an unprecedented and dangerous trend, the Levada Center head says.

Gudkov insists that these people were not interested in emigrating primarily as a form of protest but rather felt that way because they considered their “civilizational” understandings in compatible “with the norms of the current regime.” They “did not see themselves in Russia or believe in their own future in it.”

Crimea changed everything almost overnight, Gudkov says. “The approval of the annexation of Crimea and the approval of Vladimir Putin and his activity in connection with it eliminated a very large part of the complaints people had about the authorities.” They still viewed it as corrupt and self-interested, but most Russians felt it had acted “’correctly.’”

That had an impact on how people thought about emigration. During the entire spring and first half of last summer, interest in it fell. But as a result of impact of sanctions and even more of counter-sanctions, which the educated young in the cities felt even more than others, the successful young again began thinking about leaving.

Gudkov also addresses other aspects of emigration and immigration. He notes that the top elite is too small to measure such shifts although its members “understand that their position, status and property are not guaranteed here” and that “at any moment,” they could lose everything. Consequently, many of them send money or children abroad. People at the very top of the scholarly community maintain homes in both Russia and the West.

The sociologist says that economic problems in Europe have also limited emigration as there are fewer opportunities there. At the same time, he says, there is a “certain outflow of young people connected with protests and the opposition” who are threatened by the security services.

Most of the people in that category are going to nearby countries, including the Baltic states, Ukraine and even Georgia, and they now “have begun to form something like diasporas of new political emigres from Russia.” There are similar groups even in the Czech Republic and “in part” in Germany.

Russians leaving their country for whatever reason are moving in new directions. Earlier, they went to Israel, Europe, Canada and the US. Now, Gudkov says, “to an ever greater degree, people are leaving for Asia, including China, South Korea and Australia.”

As far as Russians returning to Russia, that resource is “close to exhaustion.” Those who wanted to come have, those remaining abroad are low skilled, and the Russian government program for resettlement is largely a bureaucratic failure.

Russia today, the sociologist says, “is becoming attractive only for those workers with low qualifications. And in a civilizational, cultural and professional sense, this is ever greater testimony of the demands for such workers and of the degradation of Russia itself as a center of attraction, despite all the talk about it as ‘a special civilization.’”

Gudkov concludes by saying that while “everything is possible with [Russia’s] government,” re-erecting the iron curtain and keeping people from departing doesn’t seem likely. If it did happen, he says, it would not end the desire of many to leave and it would be time to include it in the list of countries without a future.

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Andrei Piontkovsky: “Putin’s Concept of the ‘Russian World’ Threatens All Territories with a Russian Population”
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 10:53 PM

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The Institute of Modern Russia introduces a series of interviews with Russian and Western experts on the situation in Russia, its relationship with the West, and the future of its political system. In the first article of the series, Leonid Martynyuk interviews prominent Russian political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky.

Russia Warns US Against Sending Missile Defense System to South Korea - DefenseNews.com
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 10:53 PM

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Drive from Europe to the US? Russia proposes world's greatest superhighway - CNN
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 10:53 PM

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Powerful Ukrainian Governor Kolomoyskiy Resignsby noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL)
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 10:53 PM

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree to dismiss a powerful oligarch as governor of one of the country's regions.

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Iran Rules Out Snap Nuclear Inspections
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 10:52 PM

An Iranian official has reacted to comments by the head of the UN nuclear agency demanding snap inspections of Iran's nuclear sites.

Lavrov Calls For End To U.S. Embargo Against Cuba
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 10:52 PM

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called for an end to the U.S. embargo against Cuba.

Invisible army: the Russian soldier sent to fight in Ukraineby Elena Kostyuchenko for Novaya Gazeta
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 10:52 PM

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Moscow denies its soldiers are crossing the border but 20-year-old conscript Dorji Batomunkuev, who was seriously injured near Donetsk, tells a different story. He talks to Elena Kostyuchenko ofNovaya Gazeta

Dorji Batomunkuev, military unit number 46108, is 20 years old and part of the Russian fifth tank brigade from Ulan-Ude, a city near the Mongolian border. He is a conscript and was called up 18 months ago. When we meet at the Central Regional hospital in Donetsk, his face and hands are burnt and bandaged, and his ears are singed and shrivelled. Beneath the dressings, he’s still bleeding.

He says he was injured in the eastern Ukraine town of Lohvynove on 9 February, at the mouth of theDebaltseve pocket, while fighting alongside the separatist militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic against Ukrainian forces.

We all knew where we were going and what might happen

I was already prepared mentally and morally – we would have to go to Ukraine

We understood that the whole war depended on us

All the villages looked the same – devastation everywhere, everything bombed out

You have to respect the people’s choice. If Donetsk wants independence, it must be given independence

We’re on the rise again, we are being treated with contempt again but we haven’t disintegrated yet

Russia Fails to Stop UN Extending Staff Benefits to Same-Sex Couples by Reuters <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com>
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 10:52 PM

Russia has failed in a bid to stop the United Nations extending staff benefits to all same-sex couples after a UN General Assembly budget committee voted 80 to 43 against the proposal.

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Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 10:51 PM

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Ukraine's Poroshenko Fires Oligarch Kolomoisky From Key Regional Postby Reuters <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com>
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 10:51 PM

KIEV - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has fired billionaire Ihor Kolomoisky as governor of a key region in the east after a raid by armed men on the Kiev offices of a state oil firm, his website said on Wednesday.

Мэрия Москвы: место убийства Немцова статуса мемориала не имеет - Вести.Ru
Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 10:50 PM