A New Yalta – Putin’s Obsession

Carmen Claudin, Associate Senior Researcher at CIDOB, reflects on Russia’s internal repression and Putin’s ambitions over what he considers its area of “vital interest” in this article retrieved by Kyiv Post and originally published in El País: ‘“The dominant discourse of the Russian establishment is nourished by the idea of a threatened Russia claiming the right to have its borders protected by a buffer of sovereign states. Russia believes that it alone can legitimately assert its supremacy in the area, but the former Soviet republics, now independent states, cannot decide to free themselves of the postcolonial geopolitical condition imposed on them by the Kremlin.

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