Once a year, beneath the neo-Gothic spires of the Foreign Ministry building in Moscow, Russian diplomats from around the world gather to receive their President’s orders. The summit this year took place in July, a few months after Russia had invaded and annexed the Ukrainian region of Crimea. The address from President Vladimir Putin laid out the new priority for his diplomatic corps: defending ethnic Russians not living in Russia itself.
In Ukraine, Putin said, “militant nationalists” were rising again, leaving millions of ethnic Russians marooned and helpless outside the borders of the motherland. “I want you all to understand,” Putin …read more
Source: Time
