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Nikolay Koposov

Nikolay Koposov
Historian of modern Europe and Visiting Distinguished Professor at the School of History, Technology and Society, Ivan Allen College
Europe & Central Asia

Nobody Knows What Russians Want, Not Even Russians Themselves

Can a kleptocracy have national interests?

April 6, 2022 • by Nikolay Koposov
Russia has no national interests, not even in Ukraine. Russians are denied subjectivity, the means of making rational and responsible decisions. Instead, they have state-sanctioned propaganda, rigged elections, pretend patriotism and a profoundly inhuman leadership....

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