The “myth that Russia is great, invincible, and so forth — it’s all just propaganda. And I think this was seen clearly once again in many capitals, and it will influence all subsequent events,” Volodymyr Ohryzko, Ukraine’s foreign minister in 2007-09 and now the head of a center for the study of Russia, told RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service.�

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