How To Protect Ethnic Russia

The foreign policies of Russia also compliments in many ways its domestic policies, both in the apparent want for dominance and security in the focal point on sovereignty. These aims lead to an importance on bringing back Russia’s international status and removing positions of power that Western states have had in Russia

Russia has built a strong, but stagnating economy on several natural resources to include the refinery and export of natural gas and oil. According to the Jim Picht (2014) exportation of natural gas and oil to Eastern Europe account for 70 percent of Russia’s exports and 53 percent of the government’s revenue. Along with exporting oil to Eastern Europe, Russia also exports too many countries to include China and Belarus. Europe fueled majority by Russian supplied natural gas and oil, the dependency of Europe’s need for this natural resource is the reason Russia’s economy is so strong. In 2014, when Russia decided to invade the neighboring country of Ukraine has led Europe to begin searching for other suppliers of their natural resources. If Europe finds other countries to supply the natural resources

As we all know, the Russian was divided from Soviet the largest nation of socialism in the 20th century. But how it became Soviet in the past time? Russia has a long history and played a different role in the European world, because it have different weather and different geographic environment, the Russian history have a myth with wars and revolutions. Moscow, the main city in Russian history, plays an important role in this great empire. And it really became an empire in the hundreds of years. Same as all empires, the land was never enough; thus, the Russia started to expand. According to Woodruff’s words, in less than a century Russians had a success expand in crossing all of the northern Asian and arrived to Sea of Okhotsk (107). With those expand Russian become the largest country in the world. Tsar, the leader of Russia, has a huge wild ambition, because he had have powerful arms, during the time that world has been change, he gained many land and became way more powerful. As a result, Russia with tsar played a important role in that

For my book review I have evaluated and read “Putin’s Wars: The Rise of Russia’s New Imperialism” by Marcel H. Van Herpen, published by Rowman & Littlefield. The book consists of three parts: Part 1 “Russia and the Curse of Empire” (chapters 1-5), Part 2 “The Internal War” (chapters 6-9), and Part 3 “The Wheels of War” (chapters 10-18). In writing this review I wish to inform readers about the rise of Russia’s new imperialism. Russia’s empire had not been was not built overseas like other empires, instead it was considered contiguous and continental. The thesis of this book is that unlike in Western Europe, where the process of decolonization was not the same as Russia.

While chaos continued to spread across the country, Russia began to eye the territory of Crimea, one if Ukraine’s most southwestern territories and an area that used to belong to Russia until it was transferred to Ukraine in 1954. By the end of February, masked Russian troops without insignias took over the Supreme Council of Crimea and several strategic sites across Crimea. This event led to the installation of the pro-Russian Aksyonov government in Crimea and the declaration of Crimea 's independence. This spurred the Ukraine’s provisional government to request an emergency meeting with the U.N. Security Council in which they called on Russia to stop all military action in Crimea. By Mach 1st, Russia’s parliament approves President Putin 's request to use force

In the beginning, Russia was never really ‘Russia, ‘as we know it to be today but a group of cities coalesced into an empire. In the early ninth century, the Varangians crossed the Baltic Sea and landed to Eastern Europe. The Varangian people were lead by a semi legendary warrior named Rurik. In 862, he would lead his people into the city of Novgorod on the Volhov River. To this day, it is uncertain if his rule was one which would be taken by force or if he was invited. Rurik would invest a lot of time in the city of Novgord. In 882 Rurik’s successor, Oleg would help him to extend his power southward. Oleg would gain control of a Slavic city called Kiev. Kiev would become the center of a trade route between Scandinavia and Constantinople. The empire would flourish for the next three hundred years under a new name, Kievan Rus.

Despite the annexation by Moscow, Crimea (linked to Russia by only an over-burdened ferry link) is reliant on Ukraine for most of its energy and food supplies. The region has been subjected to tough sanctions by the West that have seen it cut off from international banking systems and Western firms pull

To note, the West has preconceived notions that were caused, and have lasted, by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Putin’s centralization of power, oppressive control, and military engagements in Georgia and South Ossetia, all these reaffirm the West's perception that Putin is attempting to return to Soviet Authoritarianism. However, in Russia, all these actions are seen as necessary. The country was on the verge of collapse when Putin came to power. Social reforms had upturned the former way of life and corruption was rampant. In Russian’s, and Putin’s, eyes, the country is becoming more modernized. Putin is doing what he sees fit, using his prior experiences from the two decades before his presidency. Putin is the savior of Russia, and, arguably, the creator of today's

While EU and USA is working for more integration of independent Caucasian countries into the world community Russia sees it as process aimed at its isolation. If Russia loses it control over Caucasus it will lose its direct communication lines with Black Sea and consequently with outer world which in turn will diminish its significance as a world power .

This research paper aims to address issues relating primarily to the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014. Annexation in itself brings forth an array of issues under international law, and the problem this paper looks into is whether the acquisition of the Crimean territory by the Russian Federation was valid in terms of international law, as well as analysing the arguments brought forward by Russia in defence of its actions leading up to the annexation of the Crimean territory. Aspects relating to the use of force principle will be critically discussed, as well as issues relating to infringement of state sovereignty.

The years following the collapse of the Soviet Union have been marked with constant conflict as Russia attempts to regain its footing on the world stage. Within the past decade alone, Russia has managed to annex Crimea from the Ukraine, defeat the Chechens and Georgians, and supports the Bashar Al Assad regime in Syria. Furthermore, Its current leader Vladimir Putin, has managed to maintain power over Russia for over seventeen years. With this in mind, Russia's leadership have constantly expressed an unwillingness to cooperate with other western powers, which has resulted in Economic sanctions and the breakout of cyber warfare. The current situation seems to be deteriorating as Russia

Under international law Russia’s invasion of the Crimean Peninsula is illegal as the Referendum held on the 16th of March by Russia infringed upon the

There is growing concern over Russian posturing and threats in nations in Russia’s immediate vicinity within Eastern Europe. Thanks to its geographic convenience, ethnic cultural connections, and political history, Eastern Europe, including and especially the Baltic nations, is a natural candidate for Putin’s ongoing quest to expand his sphere of influence and demonstrate the might of Russian power.

Putin has long upheld a KGB style Cold War mentality mixed with Conservatism of Russian thinkers from early twentieth century such as Berdyaev, Solovyov and Ilyin. All of these thinkers, in one way or another, were patriots as well as socialists and wanted Russia to be independent from any western ideas which they claimed were manipulative in a sense that, western ideas would shape rest of the world for their own interests. The mixture of ideas presented by these thinkers is exactly what Putin needs to unite the legacies of both the Russian and Soviet empires into a solid path dependant ideology. This ideology roughly says that Western countries spread some liberal and deleterious ideas essentially hostile to Russia’s tradition, and deliberately aims to destroy Russia’s historically unique culture that combines autocracy, orthodoxy and Slavic brotherhood. For this reason, Putin has no other choice but to protect the historical Russian borders from such civilization challenge.

Third, in nowadays there is a war between Ukraine and Russia that is because of Ukraine land. Everything started when, “The situation that emerged between November 2013 and March 2014, the so-called Euromaidan, can be called a ‘Ukrainian crisis’ as indeed hundreds of thousands of people stood against the regime of President Viktor Yanukovych demanding to stop corruption, to proceed with the signing of the Association Agreement with the EU.”( Shelest 191). When people heard that the agreement will not be signed, Ukrainian people stood against the president. Soon the Euromaidan become not just a Revolution, but a fight for life. “Those events took place in Ukraine and were about Ukraine. The events following March 2014 are not anymore just about Ukraine. They are more about Russia’s fear of a Maidan of its own, about exercising control in its ‘spheres of interests and influence’ and about contradictions between the East and the West, as perceived by Russia.” (Shelest 191-192). During the Revolution more than 100 people died. After the that the war with Russia started. “In addition, the Russian president received parliamentary approval to deploy its armed forces to the territory of Ukraine in order to protect Russian-speakers from potentially lethal violence. As of 5 March, however, there was no sign of Russian forces seeking to move beyond Crimea.” ( Redman 239).Russian saying that they were “ supporting the Russian-speaking population but it is