How Putin created the most threatening regime in the world – with Michael Thumann
Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes
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The Turning Point in the History of Russia
He blamed the West and various conspiracy theories for the democratic uprisings we saw in those places. The war in Georgia obviously happened in 2008 as a kind of response to the way that a lot of these countries were gravitating towards the West. He chose nationalism as a new ideology, an ideology which he had maybe played around with a bit before but it was in 2012 that he declared himself a nationalist. And since then the rollback in Russia started.
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