Tag: Russian militarism

Russia Can No Longer Afford to Be the Militarist and Expansionist Power It has Always Been, Shevtsova Says

July 9, 2015
Analysis
Window on Eurasia

Staunton, July 8 – After a brief attempt to escape from its past in the 1990s, Russia under Vladimir Putin is “again returning to militarism…the model of existence in which Russia had existed for centuries” in order to prepare for war. No other such civilization exists in the world now, but Russia “cannot militarize as […]

Putin’s Five-Year Plan for Promoting Patriotism More Militaristic than Soviet Ones Were

April 12, 2015
Analysis
Window on Eurasia

Staunton, April 12 – Moscow’s new five-year plan for promoting patriotism among the young is not only better financed – spending will more than double – but far more militaristic than the program it replaces and than the Soviet-era projects in this sphere, according to an analysis by Anton Chablin, a commentator for Kavkazskaya Politika. […]