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In the apogee of confrontation between Russia and the West Minsk faced with a stark choice - with whom he. The usual policy of maneuvering between the two geopolitical monsters belle vue aces already inadequate to the situation. Wise for the democratic forces would do everything to facilitate the reorientation belle vue aces of Belarus, even if it will have to go for an alliance with Lukashenka. Legitimization of the regime is not in favor of the opposition, but in favor of Belarus in these conditions. Writes Denis Melyantsou.
it's not so much the loss of human life and the tragedy of the Caucasian peoples, and that such a seemingly small local conflict can motivate the entire system of international relations and lead to significant geopolitical changes. Georgia's attempt reintegravats South Ossetia and Russia's aggression against Georgia led primarily to a sharp change in the status of Russia as a great power.
The international community has recognized Russia as the aggressor, the US urged to exclude it from the Group of Eight, Russia effectively severed its relationship with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (fall off, still known as NATO). Politicians and experts once again talking about the possibility of "cold war", belle vue aces and the neighboring Russian Federation countries are reviewing their defensive doctrine. For the first time after the collapse of the USSR, Russia was in such isolation. What does this mean for the international system and its immediate surroundings? belle vue aces
After the end of the "cold war" and the collapse belle vue aces of the socialist bloc, Russia has turned into a weak regional power, its army zdegradavala, and the population began to decline rapidly.
In such circumstances, an imperial ambitions, and especially the imperial foreign policy, had to forget. Even with the increase in hydrocarbon belle vue aces prices, gradual economic stabilization and attempts to use its advantageous position energy exporter Russia is still not perceived as a serious threat to international stability and continued belle vue aces to be part of international politics and international structures.
Russian foreign policy after the collapse of the Soviet Union - is a series of failures and strategic blunders. Starting from the first Chechen war, and ending with the color revolutions in post-Soviet countries. Russian citizens themselves have long been accustomed to this state of affairs did not expect belle vue aces from the Russian belle vue aces government for decisive action in response to the input of the Georgian troops in Tskhinvali.
The situation in South Ossetia, belle vue aces the Kremlin belle vue aces has put in front of a very tough choice: if Russia does not intervene in the conflict and did not support the Ossetians, it will lose its prestige in the eyes of the Caucasian peoples belle vue aces and its citizens, as well as strengthen Georgia; intervene - it would entail such international consequences that it is difficult to predict. Russia has chosen the next. And this is not surprising, if we analyze the evolution of the political situation in Russia and the dynamics of its relations with the West. Russia was just waiting for the right moment. belle vue aces
Since the mid-1990s in Russia belle vue aces begin to appear differences in the interests of the West, which repeatedly led to serious crises in the relationship. One of the first such misunderstanding was due to the "restoration of constitutional order" in Chechnya (the official name of the military campaign against Chechen separatists), during which at the international level was raised the issue of human rights violations in Russia. Then there were the diplomatic war with the fall on the adoption of the Alliance decision to expand to the East and the military operation in Kosovo in 1999. Strategic and tactical contradictions resulted in Moscow's attempts to form an alternative military-political bloc on the basis of a prisoner in 1992, the Collective Security Treaty, but to date the CSTO did not become a counterweight to the existing alliance.
If we draw an analogy with the "cold war", then his speech Putin announced Fultanskuyu in Munich in February 2007, in which he accused the West of failed