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The expansionist tendencies of the current Russian regime indicate its intentions for the realisation of a Greater Russia on the lines of the Soviet era. Comment.

  • UPSC 2024
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  • Changing International Political Order

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From Georgia (2008) to Crimea (2014) and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Vladimir Putin's Russia has redrawn borders by force. Whether this is imperial reconstitution or a defensive reaction to Western encroachment is contested. The evidence supports revisionism, but a "Soviet-era" restoration overstates it.

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  • The case for a "Greater Russia" project
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  • Why "Soviet era" overstates it
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