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30 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Russia Is Only Pretending to Be a Major Power

November 26, 2019
Vladimir Yakunin, the former Russian Railways boss and KGB spy, leaned forward to describe the way the world is going. It was the middle of October, and he had just convened an annual gathering of statesmen from countries that are, as a rule, sympathetic to the Kremlin. Held each fall on the Greek island of…