Tag: collapse of USSR

Putin Gives the World His Geography Lesson: ‘All the Former USSR is Russia’

April 28, 2015

Staunton, April 27 -The 150-minute film The President about Vladimir Putin is mostly boring and predictable in that it insists that “without Vladimir Vladimirovich nothing in the country will work,” Kseniya Kirillova notes. But she points out that there are three “lessons” contained in the film that must not be ignored. First, she argues, despite […]

War in Ukraine ‘Continuation of Decay of USSR,’ Sukhov Says

February 24, 2015

Staunton, February 24 — The war in Ukraine must be seen as a direct “continuation” of the decay and disintegration of the Soviet Union and the failure of Russia and many other of the countries which emerged from it to develop the kind of political institutions necessary for stability, according to Moscow commentator Ivan Sukhov. […]

War in Ukraine ‘Continuation of Decay of USSR,’ Sukhov Says

Staunton, February 24 – The war in Ukraine must be seen as a direct “continuation” of the decay and disintegration of the Soviet Union and the failure of Russia and many other of the countries which emerged from it to develop the kind of political institutions necessary for stability, according to Moscow commentator Ivan Sukhov. […]