Vladimir
Putin Not Responsible for Ukrainian Civil
War, Expert Says
Video
Through a careful review of recent history,
Russia and Soviet scholar Paul Robinson
debunks the claim that Russian President
Vladimir Putin is directing the rebels
fighting in Ukraine’s eastern region.
“No plausible evidence has been produced to
indicate that members of the Russian army
were involved at the start of the uprising,”
says Robinson of the civil war in the
Donbass.
Robinson made his remarks in a panel titled
“Who has done what, and why?” at the
University of Toronto’s “Ukraine and Russia
Peace Conference” on Feb. 22. He writes
about foreign policy at Irrusianality, a
site devoted to understanding “the
relationship between Russia and the West;
and the apparently irrational decision
making processes which dominate much of
international relations.”
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Carden, a former adviser at the State
Department’s Office of Russian Affairs,
contributing editor at The National Interest
and contributor to The Nation magazine.
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