Joaquin Flores — ‘THE DONBASS COWBOY’, review of Texas Bentley’s paradigm setting must read book

Book review and plug.

In fact, all of the proceeds of his book, which you can purchase by clicking the obvious image at the foot of this review, or on this red line, it will take you to the Donbass Humanitarian Aid NGO....

Fort Russ
‘THE DONBASS COWBOY’, review of Texas Bentley’s paradigm setting must read book

Joaquin Flores

John Helmer — The Helsinki Referendum For Donbass – Putin Opts For No-Win, No-Lose; Us Rejects Swap Of Donbass For Crimea

Only for those interested in a detailed backgrounder about where things stand now from someone that understands both English and Russian and it acquainted with the sources.

Longish, and requires some background already.

Dances with Bears

The Helsinki Referendum For Donbass – Putin Opts For No-Win, No-Lose; Us Rejects Swap Of Donbass For Crimea

John Helmer

Colonel Cassad — Multi-currency system in practice

Prices in rubles and hryvnas with the US dollars as the reserve currency.

Multi-currency system in practice
Colonel Cassad (in English)

Kristina Rus — American military expert to Ukraine: "Novorossia is lost"

The takeaway? HRC as president would be John McCain. Who lost Novorossia? HRC. This is her Kosovo.

What the report doesn't say is that HRC's people fomented this whole disaster. As far as I am concerned, this is the end of the Democratic Party unless it changes drastically. 

The good news is that if this a correct reading of the Obama Administration and its NSA there will be no wider war with Russia.

Fort Russ

American military expert to Ukraine: "Novorossia is lost"
Kristina Rus

Also 

Foreign Policy (reposted at Russia Insider)
Push for Ukraine Arms Comes from Obama Officials Who Want to Work for President Clinton
David Francis

Forget geopolitics and high strategy. US policy is all about the narrow, personal goals of Washington insiders

Halyna Mokrushyna — Novorossiya Is to Eastern Ukraine as Euromaidan Was to Western

An excellent scholars conference on Ukraine was held early this month at the University of Ottawa. 

We've already featured much from there including the lectures given by the Canadian military historianPaul Robinson and James Bisset the former Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania. 

A summary of all the days' lectures has also been produced since. 

We are citing parts of summaries of two other lectures, by Canadian-Ukrainian scholars Olga Ostriichuk and Halyna Mokrushyna that make an important point. 

This is an excerpt from an article that originally appeared at Truthout

Russia Insider
Novorossiya Is to Eastern Ukraine as Euromaidan Was to Western
Halyna Mokrushyna | Truthout

Ed Dolan — The Economic Future (if Any) of “Novorossiya”

Ed Dolan analyzes the political and economic alternatives in Eastern Ukraine.

Ed Dolan's Econ Blog
The Economic Future (if Any) of “Novorossiya”
Ed Dolan