The Firebird

The memoirs of Andrei Kozyrev, Russia''s first foreign minister (1990-1995), are an honest attempt to understand why Russia-2024 is so different from the one Russian reformers intended to build in the nineties. How did it happen that the country that declared itself a Western-style democracy ended up thirty years later on a par with Iran and North Korea? Who is to blame for this? The Russian elite...