Russian domestic politics has long been both labyrinthine and pragmatic, at once both inordinately complex and breathtakingly dynamic. The same can be said of Russia's foreign policy, in particular in relations with former Soviet republics. Any study of Russian foreign policy comes back to the intriguing question of why Russia, long perceived as an inveterate imperial power, would refuse to take back a handsome portion of its former empire - a portion that offers a bridge to Europe and an advantageous geostrategic position. Despite formal declarations, Russia has made little progress in achieving union with its ex-Soviet neighbour, Belarus. Linking Russia's foreign policy to its domestic politics, Alex Danilovich clarifies this paradox and explains why specific attempts to reunify Russia and Belarus failed, contrary to the desires of significant forces on both sides and to certain theory-based expectations.
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Alex Danilovich is an Expatriate Professor at the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research, Kazakhstan.
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On an April morning in 1996 under the solemn toll of church bells and the benediction of the Holy Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Boris Yeltsin and Alexander Lukashenka made a public pledge in the Kremlin's Sobornaya Square to reunite the two brotherly peoples. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
union parliamentary assembly, monetary treaty, monetary union treaty, unification initiatives, unification issue, stabilization loan, constitutional act, rightist forces, electoral considerations, union budget, ailing president, unification efforts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Alexander Lukashenka, President Putin, Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, Soviet Union, United States, Boris Yeltsin, Federation Council, President Yeltsin, Supreme Council, European Union, Daily Report, New York, Pavel Borodin, Supreme Soviet, Cold War, Federal Assembly, Security Council, United Russia, Community of Sovereign Republics, Belarusian National Bank, Moscow News, Russian Duma, Constitutional Court, Executive Committee New!
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On an April morning in 1996 under the solemn toll of church bells and the benediction of the Holy Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Boris Yeltsin and Alexander Lukashenka made a public pledge in the Kremlin's Sobornaya Square to reunite the two brotherly peoples. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
union parliamentary assembly, monetary treaty, monetary union treaty, unification initiatives, unification issue, stabilization loan, constitutional act, rightist forces, electoral considerations, union budget, ailing president, unification efforts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Alexander Lukashenka, President Putin, Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, Soviet Union, United States, Boris Yeltsin, Federation Council, President Yeltsin, Supreme Council, European Union, Daily Report, New York, Pavel Borodin, Supreme Soviet, Cold War, Federal Assembly, Security Council, United Russia, Community of Sovereign Republics, Belarusian National Bank, Moscow News, Russian Duma, Constitutional Court, Executive Committee New!
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- Politics in Russia (4th Edition) (The Longman Series in Comparative Policies) by Thomas F. Remington on 5 pages
- Soviet Foreign Policy by Oxford University Press on 4 pages
- Interests, Institutions, and Information by Helen V. Milner in Front Matter, page 27, and Back Matter
- Interest Groups (Comparative Politics) by Graham K. Wilson on page 27, page 28, and Back Matter
- The Foreign Policy Of Russia: Changing Systems, Enduring Interests by Robert H. Donaldson on page 30, page 47, and Back Matter
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