5 YEARS AGO
November 2018
“Last December, Kiev-based German political scientist Andreas Umland published an article on the startlingly optimistic topic of what the West should do to help along a democratic revival and prepare for a post-Putinist Russia. Umland was talking primarily about prospects for 2024, when Putin’s last constitutionally permitted term ends (he will be 72 years old). Of course, many things could happen by then: A full-scale
