The Lost Twenty-Five Years

... South Caucusus republics, nor even Ukraine could have caused as big a country as the USSR to disappear so quickly. Only the will of the Russian establishment – the... .... In explaining the need for the incorporation of Crimea into today’s Russia, Vladimir Putin put forth the ‘Russian world’ concept – meaning that... ... diminish over time without active participation in the major Middle Eastern arena (Syria). Bref , the main problem in today’s Russia is a crisis of ideas –...