Russia in Global Affairs

We should gradually free foreign policy of rigid subordination to geopolitics and related super-involvement. Geopolitics won’t disappear, but becoming less engulfed in it is an important task for Russia to tackle.

A conviction formed over time that the United States was abusing the friendship offered by Russia. It was the position of the U.S. and its allies on Yugoslavia and NATO expansion that made both the general public in Russia and its elites take a critical view of Washington’s policy.

Russian society abounds in ideas and ideological concepts of every description today, and proponents of each of them vehemently insist that only their views must be declared a priority for the country’s development. Various opinions and bitter debates that range all the way up to complete intolerance show that it is impossible to design a vector of development on which the majority of Russians would agree.

Many hastened to delete Russia from the world players list but it was given a unique chance to serve as a bridge uniting the two parts of the Western world. The coasts of the Atlantic increasingly diverge in their basic values: the Old World believes in the absolute rule of law, the New World relies on force and resolve. Thanks to its special relationships with Europe and America, Russia can become an intermediary between them.