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

In the past several years, there have been many occurrences of conflict between different nations, about their nationality and being stripped of their own birth place. The United States has a tendency to associate themselves in the center of these foreign affairs. The United States, in order to maintain good economic relations and their super power status, feels the need to always get involved and provide support for the country they believe is receiving unjust treatment. Recently, Vladmir Putin, the President of the Russian Federation, took over the formerly Russian region of Crimea. The Crimean people voted in a referendum to separate from Ukraine and for Russia to annex

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.

The two countries, Russia and Ukraine, had different reactions towards the armed violence and impeachment of the Ukrainian president. Although the majority of the Ukrainians opposed Viktor’s decision to procrastinate the signing the EU-Ukraine integration agreement, all the ex-presidents accused for its interference with the affairs of Crimean. The former presidents of Ukraine, including Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma described the present crisis as Russia’s political interventions designed to interfere with the internal affairs of Ukraine and its relationship with the European Union (Hanschke 1). The people of Crimea have not been seeking for secession from Ukraine, but their interest is to have extended autonomy and rights to govern the Crimean affairs with minimum involvement of the government of Ukraine. Russia, on the other hand, have dismissed the accusation and stated that it is pursuing the interest of the people of Crimea to join the Federation of Russia. Russia holds that the people of Crimea have the power to decide the future of their territory and Russia will be ready to respect their decision. Study shows that about 90

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

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

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 .

In early 2014, Russia made the decision to conduct an illegal military intervention into Ukraine. It all began when there was a dispute over whether Ukraine should accept financial help from Russia or Europe, which then ascended into the ousting of the Ukrainian president and then invasion of Ukraine. More specifically, Russia began to taking over the Ukraine territory of the Crimean Peninsula through illegal use of force (Global Security, 2016). During that time, the Russian government voted to place Crimean’s into the Russian Federation, which had been rapidly accepted by the President of Russia himself, Vladimir Putin. Most of the Crimean population is ethnic Russians, although there are also the pro-Ukraine Tatar minorities that make

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.