BBCNEWS Dateline London November 21, 2021 02:42:00
The annexation of crimea in 2014, the invasion of ukraine. - this is a particularly- vulnerable time in europe and the west. angela merkel is- handing over power, france is heading into an election, i joe biden is yet to assert - a russia doctrine which shows where he stands. putin is having a lot- of fun testing and pushing and conspiring, and this is what he does well. i he still feels, as do a lot- of russians of his generation, a sense of bitterness about the break—up of— the soviet union, - the annexation of former soviet states into nato, and this is just that - continued poking, rib...