Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
Roger Cohen: Russia’s Weimar syndrome
Pro-Russian activists react as a crowd of some 300 of them stormed the prosecutor's office in eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on May 1, 2014. The mob hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails at around 100 riot police defending the building, who responded with stun grenades and tear gas, in the latest unrest to hit the crisis-wracked eastern part of Ukraine. AFP PHOTO/ GENYA SAVILOV
LONDON — Sergei Karaganov, a prominent Russian foreign policy expert at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, recently provided a useful summation of his vast country’s sense of humiliation and encirclement. Because explosions of nationalist fervor like the one fostered by Vladimir Putin are dangerous and slow to abate, it is worth quoting this analysis at some length.
