Leonid Bershidsky: Putin wants victory, not detente

By Leonid Bershidsky.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (front), accompanied by Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, meets with top military officials at the National Defence Control Centre of the Russian Federation in Moscow on Nov. 17.
Photo by AFP

After the Islamic State attack on Paris, there are signs of a rapprochement between Western countries and President Vladimir Putin's Russia. Putin's peace offerings are more style than substance, however.

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