Boston Globe
April 10, 2014
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Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations
Abstract
This week's ethnic Russian demonstrations in Eastern Ukraine, fistfights in the Ukrainian parliament, and the image of a country unraveling are all too predictable. They are right out of Putin’s Crimea playbook from a month ago. And just as in Crimea, we shouldn’t believe anything Moscow says about what it is doing. Putin aims to destabilize the heavily Russian-speaking eastern part of Ukraine to weaken confidence in the Kiev government and argue that Russia alone can bring about order.
Citation
Burns, Nicholas. "Playing to Putin’s End Game." Boston Globe, April 10, 2014.