Russia’s Ukrainian Path to the Future
For Russia's leaders, it is a matter of life and death that ex-Soviet countries that chose a different model of development – Ukraine being chief among them – should never become attractive to ordinary Russians. But Russia's rejection of Ukraine's pro-Western model is placing its own future its peril.
MOSCOW – Russia and the West are losing each other yet again. The magnetic attraction and repulsion between the two has been going on for centuries. Indeed, historians have counted as many as 25 such cycles since the reign of Tsar Ivan III.