Domestic and Global Geopolitics The Russian Federation of the New Millennium is profoundly different from all previous “Russias”, but from each has drawn something to get to be what it is today. A Russia that is certainly daughter of her past. A past dense and rich of history, between Empire, Dictatorship of the
Politica interna e geopolitica globale La Federazione Russa del Nuovo Millennio è profondamente diversa da tutte le “Russie” precedenti, ma da ognuna ha attinto qualcosa per arrivare ad essere quello che oggi è. Una Russia, dunque, certamente figlia del suo passato. Un passato denso e ricchissimo di storia, tra Impero, Dittatura del Proletariato
In the st century, this capital-centrism no longer seems to hold true. Whatever the reasons — the nature of modern communications surely being chief among them — Russian politics is becoming truly national. For the past three weeks, the focus of political attention has shifted , miles from Moscow to the city of
Vladimir Putin was first elected as Russia’s president in 2000. Twenty years later he is still there. He has served longer than any Russian or Soviet politician since the early 1950s – and he could be on course to be one of his nation’s longest-serving leaders. Putin’s opponents say he plans to never leave