, Columnist
Maybe It’s Time to Break Up Russia
The end of Russia’s empire could be the best outcome of the Ukraine invasion.
Too much power is centralized in Moscow.
Photographer: Elena Chernyshova/Bloomberg
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A fun thing about playing the video game “Civilization” was that your early cities would suit whatever country you were playing — for example, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novgorod (and yes, gulp, “Kiev” and “Odessa”) if you were playing as Russia. But then as you absorbed other countries, you’d get all their cities too. So if you played the game right but were also too lazy to rename your conquests, then, like, Washington, Beijing, Paris and Delhi would be “Russian” cities too.