Alexander Motyl: Will Putin avoid getting cornered?

Russian President Vladimir Putin adjusts his sunglasses as he watches an air show during MAKS-2011, the International Aviation and Space Show, in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, on August 17, 2011.
The New Pathway has interviewed Alexander J. Motyl, a professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark, as well as a writer and painter. Mr. Motyl is an internationally acclaimed political scientist with Ukrainian roots and he has been writing extensively about the Ukrainian Revolution and war for the World Affairs Journal, Foreign Affairs and numerous other publications.