No Time for Fatalism

... Russia has to tackle The Ukrainian conflict has effectively overhauled the challenges and threats that Russia faces. We have had next to no such precedent in our history. The accumulation of shocks and their cumulative effect can impinge both on the society and on Russia’s statehood. There will be no going back, while scenarios of the future—previously considered highly unlikely—have emerged. The uniqueness of the threat configuration paradoxically coexists with the standard nature of the set ...