2016 – A Victory of Conservative Realism

... ideologically, Russia took “the right side of history.” The End of Two Eras The year 2016 marked the end of two eras: the Cold War between the two blocs, which some have unsuccessfully been trying to revive, and the “unipolar moment”—the ... ... freedom of political and cultural choice, and normal values of public and private life, not postmodern ones, rooted in the thousands of years of human history. This set of values and readiness to protect them gave Russia a great soft power asset. Another ...