Tag: Smuta

Russia Has Entered New Kind of ‘Time of Troubles,’ Kazan Scholar Says

August 26, 2014

Staunton, August 24 – Russia has entered a new “smuta” or “Time of Troubles,” one in which there is no basis for confidence or any clear path forward and which unlike previous earlier analogues “threatens completely unpredictable consequences” for the country and its peoples, according to a Kazan academic. In the current issue of Zvezda Povolzhya, […]