Russia and the Problematic Relationship with the Soviet Sphere

Crisis poses Russian - Ukrainian explosive Currently, Bchabadtha Euro - U.S. , the problematic relationship between Russia on the one hand , and « the Soviet sphere » the former on the other hand .

After the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the early nineties of the last century , Moscow was keen in the midst of transitions and political and economic chaos , to ensure a minimum level of influence , through maintaining the political and economic relations with a number of former Soviet republics.

The first tool of this policy the establishment of so-called « CIS » , which included turn a series of frames institutional cooperation - bilateral or multilateral depending on the circumstances - including political and economic aspects of several , in addition to the CCC and the military , in the framework of the relationship of Moscow with what she called « near abroad » .

Because the expansion of the European Union and NATO towards Central and Eastern Europe to include Soviet republics formerly on the border of Russia as countries of the Baltic , or other countries like Poland , has deprived Moscow of a large margin to move, he kept the other countries due to the geopolitical status outside this framework .

Among these countries Ukraine , and that due to its importance in terms of being the second largest state in the system of Soviet after Russia with an area amounting to 604 thousand square kilometers and a population of 47 million people, in addition to having the largest fleet of Russian in Crimea , located in the territory inhabited by a majority ethnic Russian pro- Moscow . Except the place of Ukraine in the Russian national conscience like Russia first , and the presence of Russian minority and the offset account for about ...

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...he ability of Russia to defend their interests in the face of opponents did not hesitate to attempt to humiliate far the collapse of the Soviet Union , causing serious , even partially overwhelming response the Russian in more than one place , and so regardless of the readings comic has some link between the situation of the Ukrainian and other cases, typically without discrimination , including the Syrian issue , which remains high on the international level, or worse during the feud « personal » of the Russian President or the case Rusovobaa abhorrent , in addition to the letter of Western hostile traditionally Russia since the epochs of Soviet least hitter flouting strong basic historical fact that Russia has always been the victim of attacks neighborhood west for centuries , from the Swedes to Valbulendaan Lithuanians , French and British , and the Germans down .