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Nikolaï Bobkin

Associate Professor, senior research fellow at the Centre for Political and Military Studies.

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De-escalation in Ukraine as seen by Joe Biden

by Nikolaï Bobkin

Moscow (Russia) | 24 April 2014

The Vice-President of the United States, Joe Biden, travelled to Kiev to preach appeasement with Russia. Indeed, the pro-US coup government clearly lacks enough popular support to safeguard Washington’s interests. Moreover, his use of the term "de-escalation" smacks of a Freudian slip: he (…)