Putin's pushback: The context of Russia's Ukraine move – The Island

By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Context counts, and context means geography and history. The dramatic Russia-Ukraine situation cannot be understood without a sense of history, by which I mean contemporary history, not the pre-revolutionary (pre-1917) history that was invoked by President Putin. What contemporary history, that is to say, post-Cold War history shows is a combination […]

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