This headline says it all: Full circle as dissident now a Kremlin apologist…
ABC News International explains:
Nobel laureate and former Soviet dissident Aleksander Solzhenitsyn accused the United States and NATO of seeking to encircle Russia, and praised President Vladimir Putin for working to restore a strong state.…
The reasons behind his latest pronouncement are allegedly part of a pattern and unsurprising. Being anti-Western is one thing, praising an authoritarian like Putin is another.