Follow the naval bases. And

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 21:48:42 +0000

Follow the naval bases. And the money. Nothing else really matters. Those signify payoff. Fighting in Donbas and Syria isn't his goal.

Read this, I suspect it will

artappraiser — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 13:30:46 +0000

In reply to What Drives Putin?

Read this, I suspect it will help you understand Putin's Russia:

Bared Breast Enthralls a Future Czar, and Stokes a Russian Culture War

by (longtime news reporter, not culture reporter) Neil McFarquhar @ NYTimes.com, June 3

It's about a movie about Tsar Nicholas and a ballerina that hasn't even come out yet in Russia, has the whole country up in arms about it:

The players in the real-life drama are almost as colorful as the characters in the movie. Those denouncing “Matilda” include a bishop rumored to be Mr. Putin’s personal confessor and a photogenic young prosecutor from Crimea elected to the State Duma, or Parliament, after Russia seized the peninsula from Ukraine.

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Follow the naval bases. And

Read this, I suspect it will