... soft forms of interstate cooperation, based on common interests and the desire to promote them by joint efforts. They are open and inclusive, have a variable geometry and a huge potential for further development, coming from life. The SCO, BRICS and EAEU are vivid embodiments of this trend. They oppose the cumbersome military-political alliances inherited from the past, with strict allied discipline, which were created to wage wars: this is the main reason for the crisis of NATO, which has become on the path of aggressive promotion to the East in order to artificially maintain its "raison d'etre".
3. At the same time we can talk about the
crisis of deterrence policy
, including military and political methods and ...
... once again at the center of Russian security policy in Transcaucasia, amid growing threats from the
increasingly ambitious NATO member Turkey
.
Pietro Shakarian, Benyamin Poghosyan:
Moscow’s Caucasian Conundrum: Turkish-Russian Relations and the Limits ... ... inflation rises at an
alarming rate
, the latest statistics show the country’s
unemployment rate at 15%
, the highest in the EAEU.
Recent
poll findings
from the International Republican Institute reflect the growing popular mood. 46% of Armenians agree ...
... and agriculture. From an EU perspective, Russia stood in favour of a dialogue between the EAEU and the EU to legitimize the EAEU rather than to generate economic liberalization. Therefore, little was done for the advancement of the
Greater Europe
. ... ... the first unease to the submissive Russia when the USA bombed Serbia and incorporated three Eastern European countries into NATO. After learning about the US decision to bomb Serbia, the Russian Prime-Minster Yevgeny Primakov cancelled his state visit ...
... political symbols.
When the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia was recognised in August 2008, it was the Caucasus that saw the precedent of changed borders between the former Soviet republics.
It was in the Caucasus that Georgia, in its bid for NATO membership, held a referendum on acceding to the alliance and over two-thirds of Georgians voted for accession. Consequently, strategic cooperation with NATO was, in addition to rhetoric,
bolstered
by a popular vote.
The Trans-Caucasus is the only ...
... growing estrangement of Russia from Europe, they typically advance two explanations. The first is institutional in nature — to wit, that for a quarter-century Russia has not been able to insert itself adequately into the European (EU) and Atlantic (NATO) structures as a full participant or equal partner. One can debate who bears responsibility for this failure, but the fact remains: Russia found itself on the sidelines of the European security order in particular and the ‘European project’ in ...
_ Jurij Kofner, director, Center for Eurasian Studies. Moscow, 18 August 2017.The essay “The Golden Background of Eurasia. The New Cold War and the Third Rome”(Goldgrund Eurasien. Der Neue Kalte Krieg und das Dritte Rom) published in early 2015 in Leipzig by Dimitrios Kisoudis, a German political scientist of Greek origin, may represent a new stage in the study of the Fourth Political Theory.In a book of 114 pages the graduate of Freiburg and Seville universities separates myths from reality regarding...
... difference in the political part. For the economic part we have to make sure that there is no contradiction with our commitments vis-a-vis the EEU, which Armenia is a member of, stressed Sargsyan. He had also positively assessed the cooperation with NATO, and that this is no contradiction with the country's military ties with Russia.
The relations between the EU and Armenia warmed up with the visit of the EU High Representative Federica Mogherini to Armenia in March 2016, which endorsed the new ties ...
