My country has suffered terribly from the Kremlin’s obsession with restoring Soviet hegemony. But the entire security of Europe and the west is at stake• A thousand miles from Moscow: how Putin forged his Russian heartland• Vladimir Putin has one reliable set of allies: Russia’s iron ladiesOver the past decade Europe has sleepwalked into an increasingly precarious and less safe place. The postwar order that provided so much peace and stability across the continent appears to be breaking up.Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, as much as rejoiced in this at the recent Munich security conference when he spoke of …read more
Source: The Guardian
