Eurasia in Russian Foreign Policy: Interests, Opportunities and Constraints

... in character. REUTERS/Alexei Druzhinin/RIA Novosti Yulia Yakusheva: How the Steel Was Tempered – Regular Meeting of the EEU Interest two: preventing the region from descending into chaos A combination of factors means that the threat of extensive ... ... surrounding states to develop and flourish is as important a task for Russia as it is for those neighbours themselves—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, China and others. In the event that the situation deteriorates, they might well suffer more than Russia. Interest three: the politics ...