Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post: Putin dreams of a Russian ‘sphere of influence.’ Kazakhstan’s protesters are the latest to push back.
MOSCOW — To Russian President Vladimir Putin, the collapse of the Soviet Union “was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.”
He made that statement in 2005, just months after Ukrainians launched their “Orange Revolution” and began to shake off Russia’s influence in the country, spurring Kyiv’s pro-democracy leanings.
Two years earlier, an uprising in the Caucasus country of Georgia had ousted its Soviet-holdover president.
Putin dreams of a Russian 'sphere of influence.' Kazakhstan's protesters are the latest to push back.
Although Putin clings to Soviet nostalgia — and to a self-drawn map of Moscow’s “sphere of influence” that covers much of the former empire — the countries surrounding Russia have other ideas.
The latest example is sweeping anti-government protests in Kazakhstan that have rattled a political system entrenched for three decades and brought in Russian-led forces to try to keep a lid on the unrest.
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Putin puts out fires across a former Soviet empire clamoring for change -- Politico
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What Kazakhstan's Unrest Means for Russia -- Foreign Policy
With Ukraine Tensions High, Russia Blames U.S. Wars for Kazakhstan Crisis -- Tom O'Connor, Newsweek
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1 comment:
Oral, Kazakhstan has an east-west road that goes to Orenberg. If that road is cut then Russian only has two east west roads north of there and also Orenberg becomes kind of a useless appendage dangling in nothingness.
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