Russian Federation ‘Sooner Or Later’ Will Go The Way Of All Other Empires, Shevtsova Says by James Miller
Russian Federation ‘Sooner Or Later’ Will Go The Way Of All Other Empires, Shevtsova Says by James Miller Thursday November 5 th , 2015 at 9:26 AM The Interpreter 1 Share Staunton, November 4 – The Russian Federation is not sustainable in its current form, Liliya Shevtsova says. “It is the last empire of its type in the 21st century, and it cannot respond to a single contemporary challenge.” Consequently, it “is on the road to the cemetery” but just when is impossible to say. In an interview with Belaruspartisan.org , the Moscow political analyst says that the Kremlin is very good at political manipulation, “but the Russian Federation is not a stable state. Sooner or later, Russia will repeat the path of the Ottoman Empire or Austro-Hungary … which fell apart a century ago.” She argues that Russia must “find a civic form for Russian nationalism and convert itself into a nation state. On this,” she says, “depends stability on the entire Eur