Here's a Breakdown of Russia's Foreign Policy Goals

... EU-imposed sanctions and restoring a modicum of economic relations with Western Europe. Russia also hoped that developments in the European Union, including Brexit and elections in France, would lead to a less Atlanticist, less Russoskeptic EU. These hopes ... ... not stop there. It has become actively engaged in the Western political debate, including during election campaigns. In the presidential elections of 2016 in the United States and 2017 in France, Moscow made its preferences fully known. This trend is ...