Damir Marusic sat down with scholar Agnia Grigas to discuss her new book on Putin’s policies. Below is an edited transcript.Damir Marusic for TAI: Tell us a little bit about the book Beyond Crimea: The New Russian Empire, and what you set out to do in writing it. Agnia Grigas: I set out to write this book in early 2014 with the aim of shedding light on Putin’s revanchist foreign policy, which was still largely misunderstood. It was before Russia annexed Crimea and before the war in the Donbas, but tensions were already high. Moscow’s rhetoric focused on the need …read more
Source: The American Interest
