For Vladimir Putin, history definitely does not pass.
Since arriving at the Kremlin in 2000, the former KGB officer has rewritten certain chapters, especially those which, after the fall of communism, had endorsed Moscow's loss of influence over his neighbors.
Erase or empty the independence of 1991, replay the Cold War to his advantage: the Russian president, who considers the disappearance of the USSR as a "
geopolitical catastrophe
", wants to review the post-Soviet international order and regain his position. influence on the former USSR republics.
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