#ArkadyOstrovsky on #Putin’s #War Strategy: What Does #Victory Mean?

Arkady #Ostrovsky, #Russia and Eastern #Europe Editor at The #Economist, unpacks the true purpose behind Putin’s war in Ukraine. Despite immense human and economic losses, Putin is playing a long game—using negotiations as a tool to outlast Western support and achieve a so-called “#DefinitiveResolution.” His ambition? To neutralize #Ukraine, rewrite the post-1945 order, and restore Russia’s #superpower status.

#Russia #UkraineWar #Putin #Geopolitics #TheEconomist #Sanctions #Trump #NATO #ForeignPolicy

"Way to go, #russia!" 😆 😆 😆

Residents of #Ostrovsky, #Kostroma region, were given a booth for the New Year.
This is what authorities call a “modern modular bus station.”
As they say, when an economy rises from its knees and is ahead of Europe in its development, every now and then breakthrough after breakthrough happens.

#Nightingale_Droppings

#ukraine #putinisamasskiller #putinisawarcriminal @kardinal691

Monument to Alexander Ostrovsky in Moscow * All PYRENEES · France, Spain, Andorra

Monument to A. N. Ostrovsky – a monument to the Russian writer Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky. Installed in Moscow on Teatralnaya Square in front of the Maly Theatre in 1929. Sculptor – Nikolai Andreev, architect – Fedor Shekhtel. The sculpture is made of bronze and sits on a granite pedestal. Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (1823 – 1886) was ...

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State Museum - Cultural Center "Integration" named after N. A. Ostrovsky * All PYRENEES · France, Spain, Andorra

Integration (State Museum – Cultural Center “Integration” named after N. A. Ostrovsky) – a museum specializing in supporting people with disabilities, created based on the museum apartment of Nikolai Ostrovsky in a historic building on Tverskaya Street (house No. 14) in Moscow. Since 1918, part of the premises on the upper floors of the Eliseevsky store, ...

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Ostrovsky Square and its Catherine's Garden * All PYRENEES · France, Spain, Andorra

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