Aggression against Ukraine drove Russia to a standstill; Henceforth everything that seems to be the victories of the Kremlin is in fact a desperate attempt to get out of this impasse.
This opinion was expressed in an interview with the "Observer" by the Russian and American historian, art and culture theorist, philosopher, film critic, philologist, professor of New York University Mikhail Yampolsky.
"It is absolutely clear that both the Kremlin and Russia as a whole are in a state of deep crisis," he said.. "I have a feeling that what we accept as victories has long been no victories. This is all the time an attempt to somehow get out of the impasse in which Russia has driven itself, in fact, in 2014, since the annexation of the Crimea and the beginning of the war in the Donbass. It seems to me that since then all the behavior of Russia is dictated by hopeless attempts to get out of this impasse, and not by the desire for some special victories, "Yampolsky.
In his opinion, "Russia is stuck in this situation even more than Ukraine, although both Russia and Ukraine are equally affected". "Russia was in political isolation, in a state of strong economic crisis. But that's not the point. The fact is that the country's prospects have significantly decreased, "he stated..
The expert is convinced that attempts to interfere in the course of the elections in the US and in France, hacker attacks, and even to some extent the war in Syria represent "endless attempts to get out of the Donbass and Crimean deadlock" and solve the main issue - the lifting of sanctions.
"But it seems to me that all these failed or badly successful attempts are all the time returned by the boomerang. For example, as with Trump - the whole story unfolds in a completely unanticipated plane.
The Russian authorities continue to flounder in the swamp, into which they climbed, move farther and farther and more and more drown in it, "concluded Yampolsky.
Full version of the interview with Mikhail Yampolsky read here.
As the "Observer" wrote, at the beginning of June this year the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on three Russian companies and one Russian citizen for their relations with the DPRK.
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