The arguments that, as a superpower, Russia can have some geopolitical claims on Ukraine, hold no water, a renowned Swedish economist and Peterson World Economy Institute researcher, Anders Aslund says, Novy region reports on April 5, 2015.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
ZIK: Swedish economist says Russia is nowhere near a superpower
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives for a meeting with the leader of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 18, 2015.