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Sunday, August 3, 2014

Russia's Emperor Has No Clothes

Russia's Emperor Has No Clothes

By Cathy Young - August 3, 2014

Last February, after Ukraine’s pro-Russian president Victor Yanukovych fled the country and ceded power to a pro-Western coalition, my column on the Kiev revolution dubbed Vladimir Putin the biggest loser of that week: his efforts to turn Ukraine into a vassal state had succeeded only in turning it into an unfriendly neighbor. In March, when Russia completed its triumph in Crimea with a formal annexation, I received my share of comments pointing out, ruefully or gleefully, that the “loser” had bitten off a large chunk of Ukraine and was poised to grab more. Yet less than six month later, the Kremlin autocrat looks more



Read more: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/08/03/russias_emperor_has_no_clothes_123545.html#ixzz39NF0SIwq 
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