Russia in Global Affairs

But one thing is clear—we are entering an era of greater disunity, while unifying bonds between nations remain quite weak. Last time the world had a similar situation was during the interwar period. We will try to get out of this mess with minimal losses, but remember at the same time that not so long ago a similar situation ended in a world war.

The values of naive liberalism of the 1990s have been replaced with ideas of realism and statism, and the vacuum in Russia’s foreign policy ideology filled with an idea of gathering the Russian World and giving priority to the protection of traditional Christian values.