Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
Ivan Sukhov: Russia is repeating old mistakes
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) lays flowers as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill (R) follows him during the ceremony of unveiling the monument to Russian Emperor Alexander the First in the Alexander Gardens outside the Kremlin walls in Moscow on Nov. 20.
Every evening, Russians watch their television weather forecaster report the temperature in the Crimean cities of Simferopol and Yalta. Those words come like a healing balm to the souls of people who experienced the collapse of the Soviet Union as a personal tragedy and who take heart in seeing the old empire collecting the territory that rightfully belongs to it.
