Tag: Collapse of the Soviet Union

Putin’s Program of ‘Empire and Dictatorship Rather than Nation State and Democracy’ Will End in Catastrophe, Analyst Says

April 22, 2014

Staunton, April 22 – Vladimir Putin’s “Russian world” project of “empire instead of a nation state and dictatorship instead of democracy” is far more popular his country than calls for the development of a civic nation, Mariya Snegova says, but it will end, as all other such projects in Russian history have, with “a catastrophe” […]

Crimean Events Re-Ordering Relations and Conflicts across Post-Soviet Space

March 26, 2014

Staunton, March 26 – Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea has not only opened a new divide between Moscow and the West. It has re-ordered relations among the former Soviet republics and that in turn has raised questions about the way such changes will affect the future of many unresolved conflicts there. In an article for Vestnik […]

Kremlin’s Anti-Western Mythology Dangerously Self-Destructive, Milov Says

March 25, 2014

Staunton, March 25 – The Kremlin’s anti-Western mythology is now so widespread that many in Moscow and some in the West accept it as a given and fail to understand how it reflects a specific political program and how dangerous and self-destructive it is for those who are putting it about, according to Vladimir Milov. […]