Edward Lucas: Greater dangers lie ahead. Russia has mounted a bold defence of its market-abusing South Stream pipeline...The Ukrainian adventure has given a big boost to the Putin regime in Russia, which had previously shown some signs of declining popularity, amid economic failure and growing discontent about corruption and poor public services. The big danger is that as the effect of seizing Crimea wears off (and as the costs of doing so bear more heavily on Russia’s sagging finances), the regime is tempted to try something else.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 12:02:32 +0000
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