War and Punishment

The former head of the UK Security Intelligence Service, Alex Young, says that Putin is in danger of being outflanked by the very political constituency. He created the chauvinistic, nationalistic, arguably, fascistic right wing. So that's sort of bolstering the view that Putin could be replaced by somebody more extreme. You've written a new book, War and Punishment, which looks at how nationalism has been used in Russia as a kind of myth to expand the Russian Empire. How do you see that developing? Because people believe that Russia can't move forward without addressing its imperial past and present. Yes, absolutely. Chechnya and Dagestan or any other regions of