The presidential summit in Minsk offers hope of a deal over Ukraine. But the Russian leader will not accept humiliationWhen the presidents of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine meet in Minsk tomorrow, it will inevitably recall the time leaders of those same republics met to dissolve the USSR at the Belavezha hunting lodge in Belarus on 8 December 1991.Then, the key figure was the president of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin. Today it is Vladimir Putin. In 1991, George HW Bush was still striving to keep the Soviet Union together, and he was not sure which way Yeltsin would move. Now, …read more
Source: The Guardian
