The Future of Vladimir Putin: A Discussion with Philip Short
New Books in World Affairs
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Putin's Adamant About the Russians' Secession of Crimea
The collapse of the Soviet Union is not seen as a tragedy by Putin. He doesn't bother about communism because it was never going to work, he says. Kosovo has been an issue for him and other Russian elite ever since the late 1990s. The West approved Kosovo's secession from Serbia but didn't accept same criteria for Crimea.
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