Today I read an article assigned by my Russian 100 professor about the recent legislation pushes against the United States by Russia. \u00a0To the Kremlin, being free of American\u00a0influence\u00a0is essential for the free will and\u00a0sovereignty\u00a0of the country. Russia now no longer wants to part of the west and no longer wants to be recognized\u00a0as a\u00a0prominent\u00a0country in the west. \u00a0Instead it wishes to become its own\u00a0entity.<\/p>\n
In a way I see this as a relapse of the not-quiet-dead-yet Soviet ideals of the last century. \u00a0The government wishes Russia to become a super power of all things and in part, its own world. \u00a0It almost sounds as if the ideas of the government are taking a turn towards a cyclical pattern. \u00a0They have even suggested banning foreign films and words to further cut the population off. \u00a0Can we consider this to be attempt to isolate Russia into another utopia or is it simply a phase that is going to wear off? I believe that this could be a slippery slope for the Russian\u00a0government and any future actions taken in the same direction may be\u00a0severely frowned upon by the world scene as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today I read an article assigned by my Russian 100 professor about the recent legislation pushes against the United States by Russia. \u00a0To the Kremlin, being free of American\u00a0influence\u00a0is essential for the free will and\u00a0sovereignty\u00a0of the country. Russia now no … Continue reading