Melik Kaylan: ISIS, Ukraine, Georgia – in Putin’s world, it is all connected
Ukrainian servicemen stand next to a 85 mm \"Vasilyok\" automatic mortar in Peski willage, in the Donetsk region, on November 7, 2015 before a weapons withdrawal.
With Putin’s lateral side-step to Syria, much of the world’s attention to strategic matters moved away from Eastern Europe - which might explain why the Georgian Dream government in Tbilisi thought it was a good moment to persecute the main opposition TV channel Rustavi 2. And why Russian proxies are attacking in Ukraine again.
