OP-ED

Brian Whitmore: Russia’s sovereignty over all

Published Feb. 21, 2017 at 2:35 pm

(Archive photo) Russian tanks move along a street as children play with a toy truck in Tskhinvali, South Ossetia, on August 30, 2008.

Photo by AFP

So Sergei Lavrov wants a new world order. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference this weekend, the Russian Foreign Minister called for a “post-West” international order in which “each country is defined by its sovereignty.”