Russia in Global Affairs

Russia should embark upon a grand reconversion and reconfiguration which begins with a retrieval of its own history and identity. Retrieval does not mean a return to that identity; it means reclaiming it and returning it to its rightful place in one’s overall identity, writes Dayan Jayatilleka.

The West is waging a political-military war of total or absolute character against Russia. What Russia faces now is the second edition, the 21st-century edition of the Great Patriotic War, writes Dayan Jayatilleka.

The struggle over Russia’s destiny in the world, seen as the struggle for Russia’s soul between Westernizers and Easternizers – or Westernizers, Easternizers, and Eurasianizers – is an old trope.