Russia cannot afford to lose, so we need a kind of a victory
... and his foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, and he formulated many of the ideas that led to the *** in Ukraine – though he has also expressed disagreement with the idea of a long-term occupation of the country. Karaganov has promoted the concept of “Greater Eurasia” and has defended a closer partnership with China. He is known as a foreign-policy hawk, and has argued that the long reign of the West in world politics is now at an end. On 28 March the New Statesman columnist Bruno Maçães interviewed ...