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

• Putin Won't Admit It, But Ukraine Crisis Is Hitting Russia's Economy Hard

• Russian Neo-Fascists Celebrate in Helsinki

• Karl Rove on Hillary Clinton's Health - The Colbert Report - Video Clip | Comedy Central

• Obama's strategy of letting Putin hang himself is working - Vox

• Lessons from the Thirties show us why we can’t appease Vladimir Putin - Telegraph

• Viable Opposition

• Viable Opposition: Ukraine's Oil and Natural Gas Reserves - A Pawn in Geopolitical Chess Game?

• The Russian Renovatio: The Ukraine Outcome You Don't Want to Think About | Michael Vlahos

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