Alexandra Vacroux

Harvard

Guest

Executive Director, The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard

Alexandra Vacroux on KCRW

Russia is getting ready to send as many as 100,000 troops to its Western border for military exercises.

Sanctions, expulsion of diplomats, military exercises: A new Cold War?

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