-of-the-nation address, Putin explained that while Russia’s 1993 Constitution remains relevant, amendments were necessary to secure “Russia … preoccupation with Russia’s international standing. Putin asserted that “Russia can be and can remain Russia only as a sovereign … state. Our nation’s sovereignty must be unconditional…Russia has returned to international politics as a country whose …

did what was required in the best interest of Russia.The future of the companies established businesses and secured …

The government of Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) - the country’s predominant religious group - recently … opportunity to reexamine the status of constitutional secularism and church-state relations in the Russian Federation. In the … of influence for the ROC in Russian social and political life, including handing the Church its long-coveted prizes of …

The key point is about Russia, old and new, being a counterrevolutionary power: Russia's post- Napoleonic War and … moreover post-1848 policy was counterrevolutionary abroad and conservative, even when reformist, at home, as is Russia … intervention, e.g. in Syria, are Soviet. The main difference as compared to both, Tsarist Russian and Soviet, is Russia's lack of a …