Issue 4279. Last Updated: 11/22/2009

Why the Kremlin Is So Scared of Ukraine

By Andrei Piontkovsky
Russia and the West are losing each other yet again. The magnetic attraction and repulsion between the two has been going on for centuries. Indeed, historians have counted as many as 25 of these cycles since the reign of Tsar Ivan III.

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