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The Hudson Institute: Russian relations may become problematic
WASHINGTON -
Fifteen years after the fall of communism, Russia is reverting to patterns of behavior characteristic of the Soviet Union. This is reflected in foreign policy, in domestic policy and in the realm of ideas. ... In addition to a retrograde foreign and domestic policy, the Russian regime has made efforts to develop a new, undemocratic ideology. Leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church, which has become a pillar of the regime, have denied the universal validity of human rights. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has declared Russia’s neutrality in what he calls “the West’s supposedly inevitable conflict with Islamic civilization.” At the same time, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, now a strong supporter of the Putin regime, has equated human rights with the “right” of a caveman to “snatch a piece of meat from his neighbor or hit him over the head.” The danger of these developments is that they are capable of defining a durable system of anti-Western authoritarian rule. Read more at hudson.org. |
