Quote Originally Posted by cegorach
Do you mean Canada or Australia ?
Ethnically diverse and large, true, but mostly commonly united by their common immigrant heritage and shared national identity. Russia has showed time and again to be lacking in the latter.
Quote Originally Posted by cegorach
Actually a modern example might be India - certainly diverse and with numerous problems, but their solutions are simply promising something better than Putin's centralisation and vassalisation (e.g. Kremlin nominated, local 'warlords' in Chechenya, Dagestan etc).
Possibly. It's not a situation I have looked at properly before.