... 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... ... 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... ... survival of the state. The EWS in Ukraine shows that the use of force is induced by the refusal to fulfill obligations under signed international agreements, such as Minsk-2....
... 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
. ... ... events were developing in geopolitics and regional security.
1999 brought 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 ...