: For all its strength, Russia has always seen itself as a besieged victim #IndiaNEWS The range of anti-Russian measures taken by countries around the world since the start of Russia’s invasion of

For all its strength, Russia has always seen itself as a besieged victim #IndiaNEWS
The range of anti-Russian measures taken by countries around the world since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is virtually unprecedented and hearkens back to the darkest days of the Cold War.They have assumed many forms but broadly include economic sanctions, military support for Ukraine and boycotts of Russian exports. Other forms of resistance, undertaken primarily by nonstate actors, focus more on Russian culture – its music, literature and arts – with the country’s conductors dismissed from European concert halls and pieces by Tchaikovsky excised from set lists.Yet there is no single country, international organisation or command centre directing these efforts.This has not stopped Russian President Vladimir Putin from arguing precisely that.In a March 25 speech to Russia’s leading cultural figures, Putin asserted that all of these actions – whether military, economic or cultural – amount to a single, concentrated plan by the West to “cancel�? Russia and “everything connected with Russia�?, including its “thousand-year history�? and its “people�?.The sweeping, uncompromising nature of his rhetoric may sound hyperbolic and even absurd to Western ears. However, in Russia that is not necessarily the case. Many people there seem to accept Putin’s premise, not just because it seems to fit present circumstances, but because the idea of the nation...Read more

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