Russia has chosen a dark chapter of its past. It not chosen what could still be a bright future. And the russia of to day has grasped on to real and perceived historic grievances of the russian people, and is created, for its own purposes,. A view for that people of an outside world that is relentlessly hostile, relentlessly anti sa.
This week, we’re going back to 2017, with our debate "It's time to bring Russia in from the cold: Rapprochement is in the West's best interests". For this major event, Intelligence Squared put together a stellar line-up. Making the case for rapprochement with Russia was Vladimir Pozner, one of Russia’s best known television journalists and a former advocate for the Soviet Union, and Domitilla Sagramoso, a leading expert on security in Russia; arguing against them were Michael Hayden, former director of both the CIA and the NSA, and Radek Sikorski, who was Poland’s foreign minister from 2007 to 2014.
The debate was chaired by BBC World News presenter Nik Gowing.
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