CNN Motyl on Volodya The Great (Brexun)

From: Brudder Andrusha ([email protected])
Date: Fri Mar 21 2014 - 09:28:16 EST

� Opinion: Putin's breathtaking lies about Russia � � http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/19/opinion/motyl-putin-speech/index.html?iid=article_sidebar Vladimir Putin's gala address before Russian parliamentarians and officials Tuesday surprised no one when he announced Russia's annexation of Crimea. The interesting part was his distorted view of Russian history, and his proclamation that a bizarre kind of simultaneously aggrieved and aggressive hyper-nationalism is now Russia's official ideology. >In discussing Ukraine, however, Putin seemed to go out of his way to suggest he had no aggressive intentions and was not planning to divide the rest of the country.

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