Twenty-five years ago, Moscow’s massive nuclear weapons stockpile could not prevent the Soviet Union from falling apart, because of a conjunction of domestic problems and opposition from abroad, the influential Izborsky Club says. Today, Russia has recovered from the disasters of the 1990s; but the situation both at home and abroad is such that Russia is again at risk unless it devotes more efforts to overcoming its domestic difficulties and foreign challenges.
The Izborsky Club is made up of a group of intellectuals and writers put together by ultranationalist Soviet/Russian author Aleksandr Prokhanov to promote Russian nationalist and traditionalist views. …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation