Putin's Eurasian Union Without Ukraine

The Kremlin has openly declared this new agenda to turn Russia into the anti-West, writes Alexander Nekrassov. The paradox is that in a country where the population is easily drugged by militarist propaganda, people are afraid of bloodshed and hate the thought of war," he adds. To many, Kiev is as important to Russia as Kosovo and the 14th century battle for Kosovo are to the Serbs, says Nekrassova.