Vladimir Putin has spent much of his two decades in power attempting to restore Moscow’s rule over former republics of the Soviet Union. For the most part, he has failed. Though he has applied economic pressure, organized electoral fraud, mounted propaganda campaigns and cyberwars, and, in the cases of Georgia and Ukraine, resorted to military invasion, he has regained only a few fragments of territory outside Russia’s borders, while alienating nations that used to be close friends.
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Washington Post: The West can help Belarus to resist Russia
Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko attends a meeting with his Russian counterpart in the Black sea resort of Sochi, on Feb. 7, 2020.
