The conflict in Ukraine highlights dangerous trends in Russian foreign policy. Russian-backed separatists and the Russian military have killed thousands of civilians and Ukrainian soldiers in eastern Ukraine. It’s the starkest example of Moscow’s neo-imperialist foreign policy so far. However, even more worrisome trends have emerged.Last week, Yevgeny Fedorov, a ruling party Duma majority member asked the Russian Prosecutor General’s office to examine the 1991 recognition of the sovereignty of the Baltic states by the USSR State Council. The Prosecutor’s office obliged.Now, the same Fedorov and a colleague want to annul the creation of the State Council altogether as “an …read more
Source: Atlantic Council