– Anne Applebaum: «Russia’s Western enablers«. «But this state of affairs is not inevitable. Without sending a gunship or pressing a reset button, we could change our relationship overnight with the Russian government — and with ordinary Russians — simply by changing our attitude toward Russian money».

– The Economist: «Kidnapped by the Kremlin«. «AS YOU read this, 46m people are being held hostage in Ukraine» (…) «Mr Putin expects a slap on the wrist. Sanctions must exceed his expectations. Shunning the G8 summit, which he is due to host in June, is not enough. It is time to impose visa bans and asset freezes on regime-connected Russians (the craven parliamentarians who rubber-stamped their army’s deployment should be among the first batch); to stop arms sales and cut Kremlin-friendly financial firms from the global financial system; to prepare for an embargo on Russian oil and gas, in case Ukrainian troops are slaughtered in Crimea or Russia invades eastern Ukraine. And the West should strengthen its ability to resist the Kremlin’s revanchism: Europe should reduce its dependence on Russian gas (see article); America should bin restrictions on energy exports; NATO should be invigorated».

– Ruslan Pukhov: «What Putin Really Wants«. «Mr. Putin’s aim is not a de jure separation of Crimea from the rest of Ukraine. That would be legally problematic and disadvantageous to Moscow in terms of its future influence over Ukrainian politics. The purpose of Russia’s incursion was to obtain the greatest possible autonomy for Crimea while still retaining formal Ukrainian jurisdiction over the peninsula».

Y dice también algo que puede resultar curioso: «The final act in Mr. Putin’s calculated gambit is likely to be a return of Yulia V. Tymoshenko to power. It was, after all, Ms. Tymoshenko, not Mr. Yanukovych, who enjoyed Moscow’s de facto support in the Ukrainian elections of 2010; and in later years, Mr. Putin expressed his strong displeasure with her prosecution by Mr. Yanukovych’s government. Although she was released from prison last month, Ms. Tymoshenko was hardly celebrated by the Ukrainian ultranationalists in control of the Maidan. Now it seems that her hour has arrived».

– Dmitry Gorenburg: «The role of the Black Sea Fleet in Russian naval strategy«. Un artículo muy interesante sobre la importancia estratégic apara Rusia de la flota del Mar Negro, su composición, cuán obsoleta está, etc. Con un mapa de las instalaciones militares rusas en la península.

– Andrew Wilson: «Tatar Sunni Muslims pose a threat to Russia’s occupation of Crimea«. «There are 266,000 Crimean Tatars in Crimea, over 13% of the local population. They are Sunni Muslim, traditionally pro-Ukrainian, and much better organised than the local Ukrainians, who make up 23% of the population».

– Tony Barber: «Crimea: A region divided«. «Pro-Russian separatism emerged in the 1990s under the erratic leadership of Yuri Meshkov, an ardent secessionist, and received financial support from Yuri Luzhkov, then the powerful mayor of Moscow. However, Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s president, contented himself with a 1997 deal under which Ukraine authorised the Black Sea fleet to stay in Crimea until 2017 – an arrangement extended in 2010 by Viktor Yanukovich, the ousted pro-Russian president, until 2042».

– Silvia Blanco desde Kiev: «La derrota de las Berkut«. «Vetrov cobra unos 500 dólares al mes (364 euros) al cambio de hace una semana, cuando se hundió la grivna. Es un sueldo decente en un país donde la media es de unos 300 euros. Los agentes iban vestidos de negro. El uniforme y las protecciones se las compraban ellos. “Sólo nos dan las armas, el casco y el chaleco”, dice. Lleva un forro polar negro de Adidas, un pantalón de chándal gris de la misma marca y zapatillas de deporte».

– Henry Kissinger: «How the Ukraine crisis ends«. Que elija su Gobierno y su política, pero nada de ingresar en la OTAN.

– Comunicado del Departamento de Estado de EEUU: «President Putin’s Fiction: 10 False Claims about Ukraine«. «The world has not seen such startling Russian fiction since Dostoyevsky wrote, “The formula ‘two plus two equals five’ is not without its attractions».

– Anders Aslund: «Reviving Ukraine’s Economy«. «Ukraine suffers from three large economic problems. First, its foreign payments are unsustainable. Its current-account deficit last year was an estimated 8.3% of GDP, and its foreign-currency reserves are quickly being depleted, covering just over two months of imports. Second, public finances are also unsustainable, with the budget deficit reaching almost 8% of GDP and government-bond yields skyrocketing. Third, the economy has been in recession for five quarters since mid-2012″.

– Lucy P. Marcus: «Assessing corporate risk in Ukraine«.

– Sean Guillory: «Interview with Dmytro Yarosh, Leader of Right Sector«.

– Vídeo: «Warheads and Wealth: Five Keys to Russia’s Power«.

– Dina Gusovsky: «The ‘quiet billionaires’ shaping Ukraine’s future«.

– En el Kyiv Post: «Some of EuroMaidan revolution’s fallen«.

– Sergei Markov, cuyo pensamiento no suele ir muy alejado de lo que acaba pasando en el Kremlin: «Why There Will Be War in Ukraine» (que es más un panfleto y un aviso que una tribuna).

– Zbigniew Brzezinski: «What is to be done? Putin’s aggression in Ukraine needs a response«. «His initial success may tempt him to repeat that performance more directly in the far eastern provinces of Ukraine. If successful, the conclusive third phase could then be directed, through a combination of political unrest and increasingly overt use of Russian forces, to overthrow the government in Kiev. The result would thus be similar to the two phases of Hitler’s seizure of the Sudetenland after Munich in 1938 and the final occupation of Prague and Czechoslovakia in early 1939.»

– Keith Darden en oreign Affairs: «Ukraine’s Crisis of Legitimacy«. How the New Government in Kiev Can Save Itself» (Puede requerir subscrpción).

– Tikhon Dzyadko, periodista en una de las televiones rusas más independientes: «Putin Doesn’t Know What He Wants in Ukraine«.

– Puro realismo de Katrina vanden Heuvel: «The Ukraine crisis calls for less bluster, more common sense«. «We desperately need a strong dose of realism and common sense. There is no “stick” in relation to Ukraine. Americans have no desire and no reason to go to war with Russia over what happens in Crimea. The European Union and the United States are not going to supplant Russia’s economic influence in Ukraine».

– Harriet Salem: «Who exactly is governing Ukraine?«. Unos pequeños perfiles de algunos de los ministros y dirigentes del nuevo Gobierno ucraniano.

– Y uno mucho más completo. Katya Gorchinskaya: «The not-so-revolutionary new Ukraine government«.

– Javier Solana: «Disputas Ucrania-Rusia sobre la flota rusa en el Mar Negro: el acuerdo de 1997«.

– Y Javier Solana en 2001: «Recuerdos de Crimea, 10 años después«.

– Holodomor: «Ukraine’s Genocide by Famine«. Eighty years later, there’s no denying the Soviet atrocity.

– Antonella Napolitano: «YanukovychLeaks.org Exposes a Corrupt and Violent Regime«.