Neighbours and Crises: New Challenges for Russia

... now in relations between Russia and the West, if we resort to historical analogies, look like a redux of the Northern War. The Great Northern War arose at the beginning of the 18th century as the result of the restoration of Russia’s power capabilities; ... ... Russia with the need to decide on how much it is willing to participate in the development of its neighbours. The developments in Kazakhstan in early January 2022 showed the objective limits of the possibilities of building a European-style sovereign state ...