What the Kremlin Is thinking

• Autores: Alexander Lukin
• Localización: Foreign Affairs, ISSN 0015-7120, Vol. 93, Nº. 4, 2014, págs. 85-93
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses Russian President Vladimir Putin's reported vision for Eurasia as of July 2014, focusing on the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, international relations between Russia and various Western nations, and an apparently ongoing crisis in Ukraine. U.S. diplomat George Kennan and Russian liberals are addressed, along with the efforts to assimilate Russia into the Western system of governance. Former U.S. Presidents such as Bill Clinton are mentioned, along with the 20th century Cold War and Russian territorial splits involving Georgia and Moldova.