To restore Russian glory, Putin thinks he can reconstruct the Soviet Union, or at least most of it. Thus, he has strong-armed smaller neighbors and former Soviet republics – like Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan – to join his Eurasian Economic Union, and has clashed with, occupied or sponsored separatist movements in former Soviet states that have refused to concede, such as Ukraine and Georgia.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 20:58:19 +0000