... countries, we cannot exclude the possibility that in the future, these “allies” of Russia will follow in Armenia’s footsteps
Taking into account how the internal situation... ... the region, does not have organisational and spatial resources there comparable to NATO.
Under these conditions, the region neighbouring southern Russia presents the most... ... from these territories.
Now Russia’s strategy in the southern part of the former USSR is evolving, and this process is increasingly determined by the internal demand...
The Soviet Union might have lost the first Cold War, but Russia is ahead in the rematch with the US and, this time, has every chance of coming ... ... Secondly, the country is much more prosperous than it was during the latter years of the USSR. And most importantly, the West is significantly less powerful than it was in the... ... big question is where Germany will end up,”
he concluded, referring to the dominant NATO power that has embarked on the controversial Nord Stream 2 project with Russia...
China and Russia act in accordance with their own interests, which are not ... ... Russia, in turn, has expressed concern about the growing U.S. and NATO military activity in Europe’s North and the adjacent seas.... ... square kilometers of sea, declaring it the polar territory of the USSR. As a result, the territory of the Soviet Union grew from ... ... a sharp decline in relations with its NATO allies.
China is thousands of miles away from the Arctic, so its interests in the region ...
Russia is back and here to stay. Others had better accept it and learn to deal with ... ... demands that its national security interests be respected were ignored in the process of NATO enlargement. And so from the early 2010s, the Kremlin started charting a course... ... technologies to influence other countries’ domestic politics, for instance, has provoked accusations from such important partners as Germany and France but failed to advance Russia’s...
... replay some actions. Surely something went wrong at some point if Russia is now once again pitted against the United States, has ... ... War.
Had Gorbachev not come to power, the transformation of the USSR’s politics, economy and military known as perestroika would ... ... beginning of perestroika, the leadership was inundated with thousands of letters from ordinary people asking: Why are we involved ... ... for Germany’s reunification. (Nota bene: Kohl didn’t mention NATO among those points.)
Remarkably, Kohl made that statement ...
... exclusion from such a system of postwar relations.
The double enlargement, i.e. of the NATO and the EU, as well as incomplete, in terms of Chapter VIII of the UN Charter,... ..., to the African Union) have proved to be expressions of so short-sighted a policy. Russia has been invited to neither of them. In the case of NATO for the reason of her... ... d’etre with the dissolution of the Warsaw Treaty Organization and the collapse of the USSR, to the Twenty-First Century is fundamentally flawed. Should we be surprised if...
One of the distinctive features of the modern Western political narrative with regard to NATO is an almost total misunderstanding of how the alliance is perceived in Russia. First and foremost, the Western political establishment seems blithely unaware of the fact that the issue of NATO is the ... ... alliance is seen as an instrument of U.S. influence and U.S. defense assurances.
That is why Russia is utterly baffled by U.S. accusations that the Kremlin — and President Vladimir Putin specifically — are trying to “drive a wedge between NATO partners....
... international community split into two opposing camps, led by the USSR and the United States, respectively. And nuclear weapons, ... ... its arsenals by 34,700 units, four times the number reduced by NATO (8,700 units)[
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]. Under the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction ... ... unprecedented transparency with regard to the operation of the Russian and NATO armed forces. The list of nuclear-weapon-free ... ... important task is to rescue the INF Treaty. Rather than exchanging accusations in vain, the sides should work together to devise additional ...
... Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort, his campaign in general, Putin, Russia, and WikiLeaks in light of the DNC and Clinton-aimed related ... ... global standing and its position with its allies, most notably NATO allies—is also very much a possibility; so is some sort ... ..., a man who in the Soviet-era was an economic official for the USSR. His point man for the deal, Felix Sater, was a convicted ... ... Russia for the downing of MH17.
Trump defended Putin against accusations that he was behind the murders of numerous Russian journalists ...
