Russian peace negotiator invokes Peter the Great's 21-year struggle to defeat Sweden, as Putin is fond of doing Peter the Great's long war against Sweden - a grinding conflict that claimed countless Russian lives - is rarely held up as a model for modern diplomacy. Yet behind closed doors on Friday, during the first direct peace talks with Ukraine in three years, Russia's lead negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, cited it as an explicit warning: Moscow was prepared to fight for as long as it took. Jus...
Russian peace negotiator invokes Peter the Great's 21-year struggle to defeat Sweden, as Putin is fond of doing Peter the Great's long war against Sweden - a grinding conflict that claimed countless Russian lives - is rarely held up as a model for modern diplomacy. Yet behind closed doors on Friday, during the first direct peace talks with Ukraine in three years, Russia's lead negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, cited it as an explicit warning: Moscow was prepared to fight for as long as it took. Jus...
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