Moscow increasingly wants a greater share of tax and hydrocarbon revenues, meanwhile giving fewer state resources to the regions and oppressing minority culture and language where it can.
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Moscow increasingly wants a greater share of tax and hydrocarbon revenues, meanwhile giving fewer state resources to the regions and oppressing minority culture and language where it can.
If events like this were occurring while the Cold War raged—during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, for example—the country would be in an uproar.
Socialite, heiress, journalist, and now the (unlikely) future president of Russia.
In sum: who knows.