... remember the euphoria accompanying the fall of the Berlin Wall and the alleged end of the Cold War, which led to a unipolar world. But how many of us do properly recall the major... ... obliteration of most of humanity. Those of us who remember have only to recall how NATO, instead of disbanding, ignored Russia’s concerns and attempts at serious dialogue... ... expanded, and then illegally bombed Belgrade, ignoring the UN. That was not enough, as the West then destroyed Iraq (lying, into the bargain) and Libya, and tried to destroy Syria...
... Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Council of Europe, or new ad-hoc formats like the Russia-NATO Crisis Management Group, which has been repeatedly proposed?
At this stage the name of the game in Russia's relations with the West is not mutual trust, but rather mutual predictability. Since it is very difficult to make predictions about the Trump Administration,... ... some positive aspects, are nevertheless fully compliant with the logic of controlled confrontation and are fully within the Cold War paradigm. Retaining and reinforcing these accords would not require any historic political breakthrough, unilateral concessions,...
... 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 ... ... of Freiburg and Seville universities separates myths from reality regarding the old-new confrontation between Russia and the West. He introduces the German reader to the Eurasian ideology and provides his own unique interpretation on how political theories ...
... West was more than generous in offering
Ru
ssia a “special arrangement” with the European Union and a
se
at at the NATO-Russian Council. Moscow had to play by the Western rules, because these rules were supposed to be clearly
bet
ter for the new, democratic Russia than any other alternative,... ... how they understood “equality” in
the
Kremlin. Above all, they never agreed to the idea that Moscow
had
lost the Cold War and could therefore be treated as a defeated
p
ower. The predominant perception within the Russian political
cla
ss was ...
