Given Russia’s return to the world stage in the Caucasus, in Ukraine and in Syria, plus the allegations of involvement in Trump’s election victory, it is timely to have a new analysis of Putin’s Russia. Tony Kevin, a former Australian diplomat, has written an interesting book, part political defence of Putin and part travelogue, reflecting on a trip back to Russia after a forty-year absence.
Kevin provides a useful corrective to some of the more hawkish views on Russia. He rightly casts a critical eye over the interventions of Western ‘do-gooders’ but his reluctance to remove his rose-tinted spectacles about the …read more
Reading Room: Return to Moscow
