Chris Miller is an assistant professor at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the Eurasia director at Greenmantle, the Eurasia director at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and the author of Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia.
Russian soldiers sit on the launcher of a Tochka-M (Point-M) short-range missile at the military training ground outside of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad on Oct. 5, 2005.
A boy points at cardboard cutouts depicting, from left to right, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, and Ukrainian presidential candidates Yulia Tymoshenko and Oleksandr Shevchenko during a protest in the center of Kiev on March 29. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)
A man looks at a caricature depicting Russian Premier Vladimir Putin as Leonid Brezhnev on his computer screen in Moscow on Oct. 5, 2011.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual press conference in Moscow on December 23, 2016. / AFP / Natalia KOLESNIKOVA (Photo credit should read NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images)
TO GO WITH AFP STORY "China-politics-rights-Tiananmen" by Robert Saiget(FILES) This file photo taken on June 2, 1989 shows hundreds of thousands of Chinese gathering around a 10-metre replica of the Statue of Liberty (C), called the Goddess of Democracy, in Tiananmen Square demanding democracy despite martial law in Beijing. Families of those killed in the crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests on June 2, 2010 demanded China end its silence and open a dialogue on the bloodshed. In an annual open letter, 128 members of the Tiananmen Mothers castigated the Communist Party government for ignoring its calls for openness on the crackdown that occurred June 3-4, 1989 and vowed never to give up their fight. (Photo by CATHERINE HENRIETTE/AFP/Getty Images)
