Russia’s Disintegration Unlikely, But Descent Into Chaos And Civil War Isn’t – OpEd

The Russian Federation is unlikely to disintegrate the way the USSR did, Andrey Yakovlev says. The non-Russian autonomies simply don’t occupy the position now that the union republics did in 1991, and the Russian regions are certain that they would lose more than gain if they sought to go their own way.

But, the economist...