Russia’s war against Ukraine as a turning point for the Finnish society and its narratives
Journal: V&R unipress eBooks
Year: 2025

found themselves outside the Russian Federation.Moreover, the epidemic of disintegration spread to Russia itself."(IRP 2005) In a 2006 book Jegor Gaidar, the liberal prime minister of Russia during Boris Jeltsin's presidency, warned about Russia's imperial dreams having become a threat for the whole world (Gaidar 2007).Indeed, Putin's thinking justifies the equation of the Soviet Union with present-day Russia and sees the former constituent socialist republics, now independent states, as a spher