With their own government unable to provide them with Covid-19 vaccines, a number of American diplomats based in Moscow have reportedly asked their hosts to allow them be inoculated with Moscow's own pioneering Sputnik V formula.
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Nina L. Khrushcheva is a professor of international affairs at the New School in New York and co-author of In Putin’s Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia’s Eleven Time Zones.
There are arguably two moments in the past century when a wrecking ball was taken to Russia’s political regime. In 1917, the Bolshevik Revolution toppled the country’s teetering monarchy. And, in 1991, an abortive coup by Marxist-Leninist hardliners against the reformist Mikhail Gorbachev accelerated the tottering Soviet Union’s collapse. Does the wave of protests that have swept Russia in recent weeks herald another regime change?
Nina L Khrushcheva
There are arguably two moments in the last century when a wrecking ball was taken to Russia’s political regime. In 1917, the Bolshevik revolution toppled the country’s teetering monarchy. And, in 1991, an abortive coup by Marxist-Leninist hardliners against the reformist Mikhail Gorbachev accelerated the tottering Soviet Union’s collapse. Does the wave of protests which have swept Russia in recent weeks herald another regime change?
Not likely. To be sure, unlike the protests that shook Russia in 2011-12 in response to Vladimir Putin’s third inauguration as president, today’s protest movement has a charismatic and sympathetic leader. Not only has Alexei Navalny been a relentless anti-corruption advocate for years; when he was arrested last month, he had just returned from Germany where he had spent months recovering, after being poisoned with the Kremlin’s favourite nerve agent, Novichok to continue confronting Putin’s regime.
Russia and Armenia to review agreements on Nagorno-Karabakh
Russia and Armenia to review agreements on Nagorno-Karabakh
Moscow, Feb 16 (Prensa Latina) The review of the agreements on Nagorno-Karabakh will be the main issue at the talks to be held on Wednesday between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Armenian counterpart, Ara Aivazian, who is visiting this city, local media reported on Tuesday. The diplomats will analyze topics of the bilateral, regional and international agenda, especially the implementation of the agreements reached by the presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia on November 9, 2020, and January 11, 2021, according to the website of Russia s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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