Vladimir Putin has been backing Donald Trump not because they are soul mates but rather as a means to a much larger end: the weakening of the US and the destruction of key institutions of Western integration like NATO.
Initial reaction in the former Soviet space to the victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential elections ranges from apocalyptic fears that Washington will sell them out to Moscow to the belief that US policy with regard to these countries will remain largely unchanged and that Trump in any case will not be “Putin’s puppet.”
Ukrainian reactions to the lead of the Vladislav Surkov documents – with some seeing them as confirming what they already knew about Moscow’s plans and others suggesting they were a Ukrainian plot to justify new repression, calls attention to “the most dangerous consequence of Russian active measures, Kseniya Kirillova says.
Many in Russia and the West have suggested that US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is an American Vladimir Putin, but now there are indications that the reverse may be true as well.
Russia under Vladimir Putin is far more dangerous to the West than the Soviet Union ever was, two Russian analysts argue; and the West for the moment at least is far less capable of dealing with the challenges and threats the Kremlin leader now poses, according to a third.
As Moscow has announced that it will boost defense spending over the next three years, a Russian expert has warned Moscow can’t afford a new arms race and could suffer the fate of the USSR.
Many Children of Russian Elite Express Contempt for Their Country 2016-10-26 19:53:31 Stanton, VA, October 26, 2016 – The fact that many of the best and the brightest of young Russians are studying abroad or even choosing to move there permanently has riled Russian social networks in recent weeks. But in an even more alarming development, […]
A sociologist at the Levada Center says that surveys show that Russians have partially lost the sense they had in Soviet times that a nuclear war would be the end of everything and now view talk about it as a kind of game.
Commentators trying to explain Vladimir Putin have taken to comparing him to a variety of figures past and present. One suggests he is lonely like Nicholas I. A second says he may resemble Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
Few events in recent years have triggered such a fevered discussion in the Russian blogosphere as the erection of a statute to Ivan the Terrible in Oryol, something no Russian government had done before,
