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Ethnicity, Economics and Energy – Russia’s relations with Central and Eastern Europe

17 May 2012
ISN Special Feature

Russia’s energy supplies ensure that Moscow maintains a geopolitical foothold in the European part of the former Soviet space. More on «Ethnicity, Economics and Energy – Russia’s relations with Central and Eastern Europe»


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Moscow's Vision for the Backyard

16 May 2012
ISN Special Feature

While Russia remains centrally important to most of the post-Soviet space, Moscow's direct influence across this region is far from assured. More on «Moscow's Vision for the Backyard»


Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at a Nato-Russia Council meeting
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Together Instead of Against Each Other: The Euro-Atlantic Security Order Must Incorporate Russia

15 May 2012
ISN Special Feature

The longer the West and Russia go without developing a common vision for the Euro-Atlantic security order - and the legitimate place of each other within it -, the longer relations between the two actors will remain strained, argue the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik's (SWP) Margarete Klein and Solveig Richter. More on «Together Instead of Against Each Other: The Euro-Atlantic Security Order Must Incorporate Russia»