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

Dmitry Trenin on Russia's successes abroad and why resisting NATO expansion to the east was a fundamental mistake. Vladimir ... ... Eurasia, which many took for a pivot to the East, specifically to China. In fact, this was a pivot by Russia toward itself, in search ... ... particular, as part of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, BRICS and RIC (Russia, India, China) — have created conditions ... ... focused on its interests (and not on its own ideology; in its refusal to impose some geopolitical model on other countries; in a ...