WorldAnalyst calls Lavrov speech ‘nostalgia for the Soviet Union’

David Des Roches, a former Pentagon director for Arabian Peninsula affairs, tells Al Jazeera that Sergey Lavrov’s speech reflects nostalgia for the Soviet Union and an attempt to restore Moscow’s former sphere of influence. He says the rhetoric about neo-Nazism is ideological “window dressing” for power politics and sovereignty claims over former Soviet states, including Ukraine and the Baltic NATO members.