... day. After a while, problems have accumulated, and Russia's unchanging attitude pushed the three Baltic republics towards the Western institutions: NATO and the European Union. In the midst of these problems, Russia has yet to change its attitude towards the Baltic states. Moscow preferred to talk to the 'old Europe' over the heads of Russia's closest Western neighbors. Russia still expects that Brussels, Berlin and Paris would solve ...
... objectives:
pursuing security and survival of the regime;
developing and maintaining great-power status;
exerting influence within the near abroad in order to pull these countries into its sphere of influence;
increasing cooperation and trade with Western Europe;
undermining enlargement of the European Union and NATO into the post-Soviet space.
It is assumed that Moscow will use “measures short of war” as a tactic. This term was introduced by George Kennan in the late 1940s to denote the hostile actions of the USSR and spanning a broad range of political,...
... launched air strikes on another OSCE member state, Yugoslavia. NATO countries conducted a number of interventions in the Greater ... ... of new quasi- state entities, and a bloody civil war in central Europe. Many new states turned out to be much more fragile and ... ... revolutions’ and various other hybrid operations, of which Russia and the West have been blaming each other since the early 2000s. In this ... ... Given such circumstances, the growing, prosperous, and stable European Union was inevitably turning into an attractive aspiration....
