"The battle between democracy and authoritarianism is being waged not only in Ukraine, but in all of Russia's periphery. Putin doesn't want his neighbors to become successful democracies. ​For him, preventing neighbors from adopting Western, democratic standards, and forcing them to stay in the Russian orbit, are existential."

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"The battle between democracy and authoritarianism is being waged not only in Ukraine, but in all of Russia's periphery. Putin doesn't want his neighbors to become successful democracies. ​For him, preventing neighbors from adopting Western, democratic standards, and forcing them to stay in the Russian orbit, are existential."

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