Twenty-five years after the breakup of the Soviet Union, they crave the stability that the nationalist president represents.
because one of the things you hear from some people who are bitterly angry with Russia, you know, whether they’re in eastern Europe or Ukraine or whatever, that’s often made me a little bit uncomfortable, is that the Russians, they’re different from us. They don’t care if their ki...
Why Russians Look to Putin ; with Approval Ratings above 70 Percent, Putin Is Expected to Easily Win a Second Term Next Month
And these guys were approaching and essentially the US called up through their deconfliction line with the Russians in Syria because all of these countries have to have, try to make sure that they don't shoot at each other and cause a world war, I suppose. And so they called up the Rus...
bowman says. beyond the concern around nato and other demands related to weapons and transparency, russia’s nature of expansion is also at play when it comes to ukraine. some russians, putin included, remain aggrieved by the collapse of the ussr, and feel russia has a claim to the former...
GOING INTO a war footing and a war economy is not in the current interests of Russia. fortifyingAnd to use its military resources, (albeit the Novorussians in various ways), in a venture into another country will only worsen Russia’s, though passing, insecure economy.Putin will not be ...
RADHIKA DESAI: So yeah. Well, I mean, the irony is that, of course, gas is still flowing to Europe from Russia, via Ukraine, of all things, so that, you know, this idea that somehow it is the Russians who are doing this and weaponizing energy, it’s comp...
to get this war to end,” said Michael Kugelman, deputy director of the Asia Program at the Wilson Center think tank. “Not by coming out and condemning it publicly but more so by quietly trying to urge the Russians and Ukrainians, but especially the Russians, to wind...
been against trading more with the Russians in euros: the fact that Gazprom’s European supply contract is majority-denominated in euros can be credited to Putin’s de-dollarisation drive. This has helped to achieve amodest increasein Russia’s share of euro-denominated trade...
“There is a dynamic change going on. Back in 1996 in Ukraine, they didn’t have a decent history book of their own, but ten years later, there were good history books, and the Cossack theme was being developed. Russia and the Russians are the inheritors of Asian society, and they...