Digest: The Daily Telegraph: Why is Vladimir Putin so scared of Georgia?
This article Anne Applebaum has first appeared in The Daily Telegraph on August 15, 2008
‘It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” In recent days, this famous Churchillian pronouncement on Russia has echoed through many an analysis. In particular, Vladimir Putin - former Russian president, current Russian prime minister, the man still clearly in charge of the country - has been held up as a great puzzle. →