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How Vladimir Putin is waging war on the West – and winning

Across the new Europe, a little bit of Russian influence is going a long way

21 February 2015

9:00 AM

21 February 2015

9:00 AM

Last month, the speaker of the Russian parliament solemnly instructed his foreign affairs committee to launch a historical investigation: was West Germany’s ‘annexation’ of East Germany really legal? Should it be condemned? Ought it to be reversed? Last week, the Russian foreign minister, speaking at a security conference in Munich, hinted that he might have similar doubts.

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