SERGEI PLEKHANOV
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Department of Politics
York University
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NEWS

Churchill urged US to nuke USSR - new evidence: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2826980/Winston-Churchill-s-bid-nuke-Russia-win-Cold-War-uncovered-secret-FBI-files.html

Obama calls Putin (satire): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmIUm1E4OcI

Ukraine Signs Association Agreement with EU, PM calls it historic: http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/yatseniuk-on-signing-of-agreement-with-eu-this-is-a-historic-moment-not-only-for-ukraine-but-also-for-europelvement-in-situation-in-ukraine-340285.html

Former US Ambassador: Behind Crimea Crisis, Russia Responding to Years of Hostile US Policy: http://www.democracynow.org/2014/3/20/fmr_us_ambassador_behind_crimea_crisis

Getting Ukraine Wrong, by John Mearsheimer, The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/14/opinion/getting-ukraine-wrong.html?_r=0

Crimea's choice should be respected - Gorbachev: http://rt.com/news/mistake-fixed-crimea-gorbachev-422/

Crimea's Case for Leaving Ukraine - Robert Parry, Consortium News: http://consortiumnews.com/2014/03/09/crimeas-case-for-leaving-ukraine/

The charge of the lightweight brigade (on Russia and the West), by Ramesh Thakur, The Japan Times: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/03/11/commentary/the-charge-of-the-lightweight-brigade/#.Ux9qrOeSxrg

Newsweek: The American who dared to make Putin's case, Prof. Stephen F. Cohen: http://www.newsweek.com/american-who-dared-make-putins-case-231388

Interview with Ukrainian Far Right leader Dmitry Yarosh, Newsweek: http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/28/exclusive-dmitry-yarosh-man-who-launched-ukrainian.html

Pentagon studies Putin's body language for hint of intent: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/06/pentagon-studying-putins-body-movement-for-clues/6116281/

Why the Cold War Isn't Back, by Todd S. Purdum: http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=3D620BD0-92E8-0726-F1A18B8E53CAF06E

A monster reawakens: the rise of Ukrainian fascism, by Justin Raimondo: http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/03/04/a-monster-reawakens-the-rise-of-ukrainian-fascism/print/

How the Ukrainian crisis ends, by Henry Kissinger: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/henry-kissinger-to-settle-the-ukraine-crisis-start-at-the-end/2014/03/05/46dad868-a496-11e3-8466-d34c451760b9_story.html

The Ukrainian crisis through the whimsy of international law, Neil Malcolmson, CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/the-ukraine-crisis-through-the-whimsy-of-internaitonal-law-1.2559980

Who hired snipers in Kiev? http://rt.com/news/ashton-maidan-snipers-estonia-946/

Putin's aggression in Crimea needs a response, by Zbigniew Brzezinski: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/zbigniew-brzezinski-after-putins-aggression-in-ukraine-the-west-must-be-ready-to-respond/2014/03/03/25b3f928-a2f5-11e3-84d4-e59b1709222c_story.html

Ukraine: The Price of Internal Division, by US Ambassador Jack Matlock: http://jackmatlock.com/2014/03/ukraine-the-price-of-internal-division/

Why Obama Shouldn't Fall for Putin's Ukrainian Folly, by Anatol Lieven: http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/03/02/why-obama-shouldnt-fall-for-putins-ukrainian-folly/ideas/nexus/

Facts about Crimea: http://rt.com/news/crimea-facts-protests-politics-945/

Crisis in Ukraine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlKEF5uoU_I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtxbGjkpkF8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2CNObsXI7U

Distorting Russia, by Prof. Stephen F. Cohen: http://www.thenation.com/article/178344/distorting-russia#sthash.p72UTWio.gbpl

Sochi Games show how much Russia has changed: http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2014/02/14/reporter-notebook-sochi-games-show-world-how-russia-has-changed/

Facts about the Sochi Olympics: http://www.chicagonow.com/tween-us/2014/02/facts-about-sochi-russia-winter-olympics/

Taking culture all too seriously: http://en.ria.ru/crime/20140129/187015221/Russian-Man-Stabbed-to-Death-in-Poetry-Over-Prose-Dispute.html

Russians: Still Go-to Bad Guys:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/opinion/sunday/why-are-russians-still-the-go-to-bad-guys.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=1