Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose on Reuters.tv
Ian Bremmer, Susan Glasser, and Gideon Rose talk about the prospects of a Russian Spring.
A Russian Spring grows as Vladimir Putin is poised to return to the presidency. Chrystia Freeland, the Global Editor at Large of Reuters news, moderates a discussion between Ian Bremmer, the president of the Eurasia Group, Susan Glasser, the editor or Foreign Policy, and Gideon Rose, the editor of Foreign Affairs, on the prospects of a similar uprising in Russia as we've seen in the Arab world.
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