The awkward fact for Kremlin apologists is that Nato has been a friend to Baltic Russophones. Eastern Ukrainians arent so luckyOn the day Russia annexed Crimea, an old friend in St Petersburg texted me to apologise. Im sorry that my country has lost its mind, he wrote. This friendship is 20 years old. It was struck up when I was a student in the disorderly days of Boris Yeltsins presidency and nurtured when, as a foreign correspondent, I watched Vladimir Putin impose a kind of order the kind that has turned my friend into a liberal dissident and that …read more
Source: The Guardian
