links of the day 05/17/2014 (a.m.)

• Prime minister calls Serbia floods "worst natural disaster" in country's history - YouTube

• Popular poem takes aim at hypocrisy of Russians

• Italians Detain Ex-Soviet Officer For Deadly Vilnius Crackdown

• 'Guardian' Op-Ed Quotes Cryptic Odesa 'Doctor' Seen As Hoax

• Ukrainian Winnipeg - Український Вінніпег

• Russian mercenaries in the Donbas - Ukrainian Winnipeg

• Donetsk a Distillation of the Worst of Soviet and Imperial Past, Rufabula Writers Say | Euromaidan PR

• Русская Фабула

• Donetsk a Distillation of the Worst of Soviet and Imperial Past, Rufabula Writers Say | Voices of Ukraine

• U.S. Waited Months to Send Ukraine Spare Tires - The Daily Beast

• Window on Eurasia -- New Series: Window on Eurasia: Russian Speakers Abroad ‘Not a Community, Not a Diaspora, and Not a Single Ethnos,’ Moscow Scholar Says

• Charlemagne: The eastern blockage | The Economist

• How Europe Enables Putin - Bloomberg View

• Putin's Internet Crackdown: Russia's First Blogger Reacts | New Republic

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• Umarov's Death and the Future of the North Caucasus Insurgency

• Russian spies target Czech Republic - PRAGUE POST | The Voice of Prague

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.