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Russian President Vladimir Putin demoted the commander leading his troops in Ukraine to a deputy role after serving in the top job for just three months.
Russian President Vladimir Putin demoted the commander leading his troops in Ukraine to a deputy role after serving in the top job for just three months.
Vladimir Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine is rocking the centralized political system he has built over nearly a quarter-century in power. As with the collapse of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, Moscow’s weakening has energized suppressed secessionist sentiments.
Over the past few months, Russia watchers have been sounding the alarm about the domestic ramifications of Moscow’s faltering campaign in Ukraine, which appears to have blossomed into a dense nightmare of unintended consequences. The rise of a new and still rare breed of Russian political actors who espouse hard-line views and wield inordinate power is a novel phenomenon with …
Moscow’s fixation on regime security and the interaction between domestic and foreign policy has been continually highlighted across the past decades and currently continues apace.