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Igor Torbakov

Igor Torbakov
Senior Fellow at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University
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The Kremlin’s Nationalist Utopia

Russo-Ukrainian “unity” plays an inordinately huge role in Putin’s historical imagination

May 9, 2023 • by Igor Torbakov
"Losing" Ukraine to an external enemy or to a domestic secessionist movement would be tantamount to the dismemberment of the national body....

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