Author Archives: Rita Rozhkova

Europe’s ‘enfant terrible’ or fear and loathing in the Kremlin

By using John F. Kennedy’s words, “Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us,” in order to wrap up his speech about a new cold war at the Munich Security Conference, Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev unintentionally revealed the Kremlin’s policy of dodging the domestic agenda while creating an image of external enemy. Continue reading