Tag: West

Economic and Political Weakness, Not ‘Imperial Syndrome,’ Behind Putin’s Plans, Rogov Says

April 2, 2014

Staunton, April 2 – Vladimir Putin is driven less by the “imperial syndrome” some are pointing to than by his own sense of the weakness as a result of his continuing reliance on the export of natural resources and his opposition to “the internal West” which wants Russia to modernize, according to Kirill Rogov. As […]