20 Years of Vladimir Putin: How Russian Foreign Policy Has Changed

... multilateral formats — in particular, as part of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, BRICS and RIC (Russia, India, China) — have created conditions in which Russia, neither the largest nor a dominant... ... actions are clearly focused on its interests (and not on its own ideology; in its refusal to impose some geopolitical model on other countries; in a good knowledge of the... ... Russian foreign policy since the mid-1990s has been the fixation on the problem of NATO expansion. The basis of this cooperation was the European idea of bringing Russia...