...Andrei P. Tsygankov “Faced with external competition, the Kremlin is preoccupied with reviving internal foundations for Russia's soft power appeal.” Second in a series on soft power around the world. © 2013 Current History. All rights reserved. 2013 The Regents of the University of California...

..., Nikolai Statkevich, Dmitri Uss, and Andrei Sannikov, were given sen- tences of five to six years. The survivor Before the December 2010 election, there were grounds to think that Lukashenko was a reason- ably rational dictator who was also reasonably suc- cessful if only in his own terms of course. Rule...