Russia's War Against Ukraine OP-ED

Paul Goble: Putin prepared to start nuclear war to stay in power, Kolesnikov says

By Paul A. Goble.
Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Photo by AFP

Staunton, November 23 – Sergey Kolesnikov, who earlier attracted attention for an article entitled “Putin Forever!” (vedomosti.ru/opinion/news/1526746/putin_navsegda), now says that Vladimir Putin is prepared to start a war, even a nuclear one, in order to retain power and thus block any chance that he would be charged with corruption were he removed from office.

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