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Why Putin won’t let Ukraine count as a nation
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Russian President Vladimir Putin in a televised address on Monday.
(Photo: Bai Xueqi/picture alliance/Xinhua News A)
In his speech, the Russian President provides a supposedly historically legitimate justification for his expansion policy. What he said, which reading he follows and what is historically behind it.
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Sonja Zekri, Berlin
Russian President Vladimir Putin can deliver sweeping speeches. His speech to “dear fellow citizens” and “dear friends” in Russia on Monday evening was not. Pale and embittered, he – as in his Ukraine treatise from last summer – reached far into history and presented a supposedly historically legitimate justification for his expansionist policy.
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