away the democratic practices, the democracy that was given to Ukraine with the fall of the Soviet Union. At the end, by the time we have the start of the war in 2014 and then in 2022, you see that this war is also can very easily and justifiably characterized also as the war between authority and democracy, between authoritarian state and another state that became democratic, one of very few states in the post-Soviet space that maintained democratic institutions and functional democracy. There's another important framing here and I think this is the opportune moment to bring it up, which is that of Russia versus the quote West or more specifically Russia versus the United States. A framing that is omnipresent in the formulation of Russian foreign policy and in the country's domestic political discourse and which looms much larger in the minds of Russian elites and in the Russian public than I think most Americans and Europeans realize. In part because the reverse isn't true, even with (36/40)
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