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...this discussion, Leonid I. Polyakov, a fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard, and Monica D. Toft, an associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School, talked about Russia’s involvement in the independence movements of the regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, recognized by virtually all nations except Russia as Georgian territory...
Having grown up in the fiercely nationalistic Ukraine and served in its parliament, Polyakov said he places 90 percent of the blame on Russia and 10 percent on Georgia...
...Russia was chauvinistic... as a Ukrainian, I have zero sympathy for the Russians,” Polyakov said...
Recalling her article “Russia’s Recipe for Empire,” however, Toft said she agreed with Polyakov that Russia wanted to prevent Georgian unity in order to preserve its own influence over the region...
...Polyakov said that the current situation consists of just “frozen conflicts and unrecognized republics” while Toft called Russia “not a rising power but a declining one,” and cited its decreasing population and failing economy as evidence...