Peter the Great – Johnson’s Russia List

NEWSWATCH: “Russia cannot live with the west – or without it; Technological backwardness increases its dependence on liberal democracies” – Financial Times/Lilia Shevtsova

March 20, 2017 JRL Russia List Europe, EU, Foreign Policy, Security, Visas, JRL NewsBlog, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, Science, Technology, Engineering, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

File Photo of G7 Leaders and other Officials Around Round Table at the Hague, with Flags

“Great power status and the desire for external domination have long been central components of the Russian system of personalised power. … With diminishing resources, the Kremlin has increasingly resorted to intimidating … liberal democracies into accepting Russia’s grand ambitions. At the same time, the country has to wrestle with … how to preserve its role as a global power without […]