Kremlin Uses Crimea to Improve Its Position in Eastern Ukraine – Analyst
Hromadske International
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What You Need to Know:
✅ Russian reactions to developments in Crimea are becoming less extreme despite talks about severing diplomatic relations with Ukraine;
✅ The initial point of Russia's claims about Ukraine's "terrorist plottings" in Crimea was to put stress on the West and Kyiv to change the situation in the East of Ukraine;
✅ Putin set a goal to rule beyond 2018, to be President after the next Presidential elections.
Hromadske’s Nataliya Gumenyuk spoke to Anton Barbashin, Managing Editor of the Intersection Project via Skype on August 19th, 2016.
