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Essay / Russia and the problematic relationship with Russia...
The crisis poses a Russian-Ukrainian explosive Currently, Euro-American Bchabadtha, the problematic relationship between Russia on the one hand, and the “Soviet sphere” on the other After the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the early 90s of the last century, Moscow wanted, in the midst of transitions and political and economic chaos, to ensure a minimum level of influence, maintaining political and economic relations with a number of countries. former Soviet republics. The first tool of this policy was the creation of what is called the "CIS", which included in turn a series of institutional cooperation frameworks - bilateral or multilateral depending on the circumstances - including the political and economic aspects of several , in addition to the CCC and the army, as part of Moscow's relations with what it calls "the near abroad". Because the expansion of the European Union and NATO towards Central and Eastern Europe to include the Soviet republics formerly bordering Russia as Baltic countries, or other countries like Poland, has deprived Moscow with great room for maneuver, it kept other countries outside this framework because of their geopolitical status. Among these countries, Ukraine, and this is due to its importance as the second largest state in the Soviet system after Russia, with an area of 604 thousand square kilometers and a population of 47 million people, in addition to possess the largest Russian fleet in Crimea, located in territory inhabited by a pro-Moscow Russian ethnic majority. Except that Ukraine's place in the Russian national consciousness, as Russia First, and the presence of the Russian minority and compensation approximately explain...... middle of paper ...... the capacity of Russia to defend its interests in the face of opponents did not hesitate to try to humiliate until the end the collapse of the Soviet Union, provoking serious, even partially overwhelming, reactions from the Russians to more than one place, and thus, whatever the readings, the comic has a connection between the situation in Ukraine and other cases, typically indiscriminate, including the Syrian question, which remains relevant on the international level, or worse during the "personal" quarrel of the Russian president or the odious Rusovobaa affair, in addition to the letter from Westerners traditionally hostile to Russia since the times of the least Soviet striker flouting a fundamental historical fact according to which Russia has always been under attack from the west for centuries, from the Swedes to the Lithuanians of Valbulendaan, to the French and the British, to the Germans. .