Ukrainian “bench” for Russia: what options are there?
For many years, one of the favorite pastimes of Russian political scientists was sorting through the greasy personnel deck of Kiev politics in an attempt to guess who constitutes the very notorious “hand of Moscow” in Ukraine, with which their Ukrainian colleagues were at the same time frightening the commonwealths on the banks of the Dnieper. From time to time, reputable Western publications were included in this fun, whose authors called only...