Russian preservation syndrome

Liudmyla  Chekalenko

Russian preservation syndrome

Liudmyla Chekalenko

Abstract

Russia has been planning to annex Ukraine since the collapse of the USSR in 1991. For thirty years, proposals to Ukraine to join various Russian unification projects aimed at creating international organisations hastily “glued together” from the members of the former Soviet Union have been floated in the political space. Among these structures, Russia, with the active participation of Ukraine and Belarus, created the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on 8 December 1991, the Customs Union in 1995, which grew into the Eurasian Economic Community in 2001, and the Common Economic Space in 2001. The security issue...

Keywords

Special opinion

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Suggested citation

Chekalenko, L. (2024). Russian preservation syndrome. Foreign Affairs, 34(1), 12-16. https://doi.org/10.46493/2663-2675.34(1).2024.12