ALL-INEWS
Russia's
Politics
Is
Expansionism
Russia's politics towards the former Soviet Republics is based on the EXPANSIONISM.
The occupation of more than 20% of the Azerbaijani territories (since 1988-to date) by the Russia's satellite state in the South Caucasus Armenia, is well known.
Armenia is doing the Russia's proxy wars against the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The Republic of Armenia was created by Russia.
Russia created Armenia within the territories of Azerbaijan.
The capital of Armenia today was an Azerbaijani city and Russia required Azerbaijan to give the Azerbaijanj city of Yerevan to its armenian subjects in the South Caucasus so that they can have a capital for their new Republic.
The 2nd Karabakh War (27 September -10 November 2020) between Armenia and Azerbaijan was a bloody war (more than 6000 deaths).
All wars initiated and launched by the armenian armed forces against Azerbaijan, either they have been inspired by the Russians or they have been assissted by the Russian plans, by the Russian weapons, by the Russian logistics and by the Russian finance.
Then Russian mass media are 99% (sometimes 98%!) on the side of Armenians as the Western media are on their side.
The 30 Nov 2020 issue of the Christian Science Monitor "csmonitor.com" published an article entitled "On Russia’s flank, a small war heralds big changes" written by Fred Weir.
Source:
On
Russia’s
flank,
a
small
war
heralds
big
changes
Fred Weir writes:
"Some people are concerned that the Russian peacekeeping force on Azeri soil, due to stay five years, “might turn into a permanent Russian military presence,” says Ilgar Velizade, an independent political analyst in Baku."
The author addresses:
“But this peace deal looks workable. It registers the geopolitical reality in our region, and reflects the will of the two leading powers, Russia and Turkey."
"It provides a basis for these two to cooperate here in the long term.”
Source:
On
Russia’s
flank,
a
small
war
heralds
big
changes
It is rediculous to say that the Russian troops are for peacekeeing purposes in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
Did we forget very soon how the Russian soldiers together with their subjects in the Caucasus [Armenian armed forces] massacred hundreds of Azerbaijani children, Azerbaijani women and old men in the Khojali city on 26 Feb 1992?
Don't we see now how the Putin's peacekeeping troops [after Nov 2020 to date] are keeping all those Armenian commanders who had committed multiple crimes against the Azerbaijani people under their own protection as the fake peacekeeping troops?
These fake peacekeeping troops (Russians) are helping them [to the criminals]to have their high positions in the occupied territories ?
Did we forget the bloodshed of 20 January 1990? How the Russian troops massacred the citizens of Azerbaijan in the capital city Baku?
Russian troops are only the occupation troops. And they want to establish the military basis in Azerbaijan. This is the purpose.
Russian troops want "piece" or "pieces"
of the Azerbaijani territories.
Russia wants only only to establish the 2nd Republic for Armenians with Russian passports.[Again within the territories of Azerbaijan as Russia did it with the creation of the Republic Armenian before].
Russia didn't want and never wants peace in Azerbaijan. Russia wants merely "piece" and "pieces" from the Azerbaijani territories.
The Russian leaders who have trained the armenian armed forces, who have supplied them with all sorts of weapons and logistics, who have given the financial aids and and always have inspired them to attack and kill the Azerbaijani people [in all Russian proxy wars], now they deceptively deploy their thoudands soldiers as the peacekeeping forces into the territory of Azerbaijan to insult the consciousness of every human.
In 2008, while Vladimir Putin was flirting with the beautiful wife of the Chinese leader in China [i.e. the leaders were gathered for the Olympic stadium], Mr. Putin very soon left China.
And then the world experienced another invasion by the troops of Russia's Vladimir Putin.
The 2008 Russian aggression [by Putin and his 2 famous cowboys Mr.Lavrov and Mr. Shoigo] led to the military operations in Georgia in the South Caucasus and consequently the occupation of the South Ossetia and Abkhasia by Russia.
The 2014 Russian annexation of the Crimea penninsula [by Russian forces].
All kinds of supports provided by Russia to the separatists [the Russian speaking rebels] who were fighting against Ukraine.
Although having critical insights into the mind of Vladimir Putin is good for him and his country, but Vladimir Putin does not have the capacity to tolerate any critics by anyone who dares to criticize his wrong politics and his expansionism into the territories of the former Soviet Republics.
On Tue 10,11,2016, The Univ of Kansas "news.ku.edu" published an interview with Mariya Omelicheva, associate professor of political science
entitled "WHAT IS BEHIND RUSSIA'S RECENT FOREIGN POLICY DECISIONS? NOT SIMPLY TERRITORIAL EXPANSION".
Source:
WHAT
IS
BEHIND
RUSSIA'S
RECENT
FOREIGN
POLICY
DECISIONS?
NOT
SIMPLY
TERRITORIAL
EXPANSION
It reads:
"Amid the criticism for Putin's actions, some foreign policy scholars have argued that territorial expansion or even imperialism is in Russia's DNA, but a University of Kansas researcher who examines international relations says recent hard and soft power projections in Russia tell a different story."
Mariya Omelicheva, associate professor of political science addresses:
"We need to dig deeper into Russia's own views of international politics in order to understand its foreign policy actions and decisions," said Mariya Omelicheva, associate professor of political science."
Source:
WHAT
IS
BEHIND
RUSSIA'S
RECENT
FOREIGN
POLICY
DECISIONS?
NOT
SIMPLY
TERRITORIAL
As author of the recent article published in the journal International Politics, Professor Omelicheva illuminated important differences in the ways Russian leadership views the world:
"How it defines threats to national and international security, and its views of international actors and its national identity."
Professor Omelicheva continues:
"In a way, Russia feels threatened by the United States, but that's only part of the story."
Source:
WHAT
IS
BEHIND
RUSSIA'S
RECENT
FOREIGN
POLICY
DECISIONS?
NOT
SIMPLY
TERRITORIAL
This professor in the political science explains:
"Another part is that Russia also feels an obligation or responsibility to act as a great power and the last final guardian of traditional values believed to be forsaken by the West."
Professor Omelicheva who is also director of the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies (CREES) addresses:
"Key points to consider are that Russia's foreign policy decisions that seem completely irrational to an outsider are perfectly rational from the Kremlin's point of view. Russia's rationality, however, has its own internal logic."
According to this political scientist, "Russia scrapping its plutonium agreement with the United States is a case in point."
Source:
WHAT
IS
BEHIND
RUSSIA'S
RECENT
FOREIGN
POLICY
DECISIONS?
NOT
SIMPLY
TERRITORIAL
Professor Omelicheva points out:
"It makes little sense given the wittingly unacceptable conditions that Moscow set for renewing the nuclear deal, including the reduction of the American forces in NATO countries near Russia's border, abrogating all sanctions against Russia and even compensating Moscow for losses resulting from those sanctions."
"The gesture," notes this political scientist, "is largely symbolic and was designed to bring Russia in the limelight of world attention as a nuclear great power capable of influencing developments in the international state."
Source:
WHAT
IS
BEHIND
RUSSIA'S
RECENT
FOREIGN
POLICY
DECISIONS?
NOT
SIMPLY
TERRITORIAL
Professor Omelicheva explains:
"Another is the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and its commitment to traditional values — as well as a supporter of Russian civilization, a largely constructed entity extending beyond Russia to include all peoples identifying with Russia through language, history, religion or values."
Source:
WHAT
IS
BEHIND
RUSSIA'S
RECENT
FOREIGN
POLICY
DECISIONS?
NOT
SIMPLY
TERRITORIAL
Mariya Omelicheva, director of the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies (CREES) says:
"In a way it's a symbiotic relationship."
This political scientist informs:
"The Russian state both empowers the church, but it also uses the church to promote its interests domestically and abroad."
Professor Omelicheva addresses:
"To protect these geopolitical views, Putin primarily has exerted used hard power — military involvement in Ukraine or restricting in Russia how Western organizations can operate — and soft power — relying on the symbolism of its political actions, like abrogation of the nuclear deal and seeing the Russian Orthodox Church expand into Europe, among others."
Source:
WHAT
IS
BEHIND
RUSSIA'S
RECENT
FOREIGN
POLICY
DECISIONS?
NOT
SIMPLY
TERRITORIAL
Mariya Omelicheva, director of the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies (CREES) says:
"She hoped her study would help enlighten discussions around U.S.-Russian relations and Russia's actions internationally, especially now when politicians and pundits debate the effectiveness of sanctions on Russia’s foreign policy conduct and international responses to Moscow’s military operation in Syria."
Source:
WHAT
IS
BEHIND
RUSSIA'S
RECENT
FOREIGN
POLICY
DECISIONS?
NOT
SIMPLY
TERRITORIAL
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RUSSIAN
Hand
In
Montenegro
Conflict
On Wed 26 Feb 2020 The Kansas University "news.ku.edu" published an interview with Marc Greenberg, the head of the University of Kansas School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, an expert in the languages of the former Yugoslavia and a frequent visitor to the region.
The title of this interview is :"EXPERT SEES RUSSIAN HAND IN MONTENEGRO CONFLICT".
Source:
EXPERT
SEES
RUSSIAN
HAND
IN
MONTENEGRO
CONFLICT
The website of the Kansas University begins with the following words:
LAWRENCE – What’s heating up the Balkans?
And what do street protests over church property in Montenegro have to do with Russia’s strategic military aims?
As head of the University of Kansas School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, an expert in the languages of the former Yugoslavia and a frequent visitor to the region
Marc Greenberg observes:
"How religious, linguistic and geopolitical forces have aligned, erupting this year into ongoing street protests in the Montenegrin capital, Podgorica."
Source:
EXPERT
SEES
RUSSIAN
HAND
IN
MONTENEGRO
CONFLICT
Greenberg addresses:
"Montenegro and Bosnia are getting hot, but there’s almost no English-language coverage of it.”
According ti Greenberg:
“Russia and Serbia are almost certainly trying to trigger conflict to settle scores for their losses in the 1990s.”
The head of the University of Kansas School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures [Mr. Greenberg] states:
"This makes the Slavist uncomfortable when he hears the president of theo United States echo Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s take on the Balkans or sees Donald Trump shove aside the Montenegrin president at a NATO meeting."
He wrote about his misgivings in a January op-edin the Montenegrin newspaper Pobjed.
Source:
EXPERT
SEES
RUSSIAN
HAND
IN
MONTENEGRO
CONFLICT
To interview Greenberg about affairs in Montenegro and the former Yugoslavia, contact Public Affairs Officer Rick Hellman, rick_hellman@ku.edu or 785-864-8852.
In December, Greenberg became the first non-Slovene to be named an Ambassador of Science by the Slovene Ministry of Education, Science & Sport in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Source:
EXPERT
SEES
RUSSIAN
HAND
IN
MONTENEGRO
CONFLICT
He is the editor-in-chief of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics (Brill, 2020).
Greenberg sees the latest developments as part of a Russian power play, enacted through religious and cultural means.
It takes a minute to explain.
Greenberg says:
"Montenegro is very small and located on the Adriatic coast, which means it has access to a warm-water port, which is valuable for exerting naval power.”
According to him:
“It's one of the few places other than Greece where a state with a dominant Eastern Orthodox population has access to the open sea and, in particular, the Mediterranean."
"But Greece is part of the European Union and not the Soviet bloc."
Mr. Greenberg addresses:
“Russia is competing with the EU for domination in Europe, and Serbia has been at odds with the EU ever since the Yugoslav wars, because Serbia was the primary aggressor in the breakup of Yugoslavia."
"And so it's been kept out of the EU, which means that it has been open to closer relationships with Russia."
Mr. Greenberg who is the editor-in-chief of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics (Brill, 2020) explains:
"Russia has long had intentions to influence and dominate whatever parts of Europe it can."
"And because," Greenberg adds, 'it shares Eastern Orthodoxy with the Serbs and with the Montenegrins, it's a kind of logical place for it to extend its influence."
Mr. Greenberg addresses:
“Now, in Serbia, that project seems to be going fine."
He says, "For example, Serbian paramilitaries have been volunteering in eastern Ukraine to help the separatists align themselves with Russia and away from Ukraine, whereas central and western Ukraine have tried to align themselves with the EU."
Mr. Greenberg who became the first non-Slovene to be named an Ambassador of Science by the Slovene Ministry of Education, Science & Sport in Ljubljana, Slovenia explains:
"That project is problematic for Russia because Russia sees Ukraine as the historical and spiritual heart of the original Russian state."
He addresses:
"Kyiv is where medieval Rus’ arose. The whole project moved to Moscow only in the 12th century A.D. and later so that Moscow is now the capital of the Russian Empire."
According to him:
"But Kyiv is where it all started, so Russia is aggrieved by the loss of Ukraine."
Mr. Greenberg adds:
"That's why they are trying to chip away at its territory."
Greenberg explains:
"They annexed Crimea, and they're trying to use pro-Russian sentiment in the east to reduce the territory that belongs to Ukraine."
He says:
“Montenegro is divided. They have a significant Serbian-identifying population in Montenegro, but they also have a significant number of other people who identify as Montenegrins and want to restore their independent state and an independent Montenegrin church,
which had been independent up through the 19th century with their independence as a principality."
In 2008, while Vladimir Putin was flirting with the beautiful wife of the Chinese leader in China [i.e. the leaders were gathered for the Olympic stadium], Mr. Putin very soon left China.
And then the world experienced another invasion by the troops of Russia's Vladimir Putin.
The 2008 Russian aggression [by Putin and his 2 famous cowboys Mr.Lavrov and Mr. Shoigo] led to the military operations in Georgia in the South Caucasus and consequently the occupation of the South Ossetia and Abkhasia by Russia.
The 2014 Russian annexation of the Crimea penninsula [by Russian forces].
All kinds of supports provided by Russia to the separatists [the Russian speaking rebels] who were fighting against Ukraine.
Although having critical insights into the mind of Vladimir Putin is good for him and his country, but Vladimir Putin does not have the capacity to tolerate any critics by anyone who dares to criticize his wrong politics and his expansionism into the territories of the former Soviet Republics.
On Tue 10,11,2016, The Univ of Kansas "news.ku.edu" published an interview with Mariya Omelicheva, associate professor of political science
entitled "WHAT IS BEHIND RUSSIA'S RECENT FOREIGN POLICY DECISIONS? NOT SIMPLY TERRITORIAL EXPANSION".
Source:
WHAT
IS
BEHIND
RUSSIA'S
RECENT
FOREIGN
POLICY
DECISIONS?
NOT
SIMPLY
TERRITORIAL
EXPANSION
Source:
WHAT
IS
BEHIND
RUSSIA'S
RECENT
FOREIGN
POLICY
DECISIONS?
NOT
SIMPLY
TERRITORIAL
Source:
WHAT
IS
BEHIND
RUSSIA'S
RECENT
FOREIGN
POLICY
DECISIONS?
NOT
SIMPLY
TERRITORIAL
Source:
WHAT
IS
BEHIND
RUSSIA'S
RECENT
FOREIGN
POLICY
DECISIONS?
NOT
SIMPLY
TERRITORIAL
Source:
WHAT
IS
BEHIND
RUSSIA'S
RECENT
FOREIGN
POLICY
DECISIONS?
NOT
SIMPLY
TERRITORIAL
Source:
WHAT
IS
BEHIND
RUSSIA'S
RECENT
FOREIGN
POLICY
DECISIONS?
NOT
SIMPLY
TERRITORIAL
Source:
WHAT
IS
BEHIND
RUSSIA'S
RECENT
FOREIGN
POLICY
DECISIONS?
NOT
SIMPLY
TERRITORIAL
Source:
WHAT
IS
BEHIND
RUSSIA'S
RECENT
FOREIGN
POLICY
DECISIONS?
NOT
SIMPLY
TERRITORIAL
Source:
WHAT
IS
BEHIND
RUSSIA'S
RECENT
FOREIGN
POLICY
DECISIONS?
NOT
SIMPLY
TERRITORIAL
EXPANSION
It reads:
"Amid the criticism for Putin's actions, some foreign policy scholars have argued that territorial expansion or even imperialism is in Russia's DNA, but a University of Kansas researcher who examines international relations says recent hard and soft power projections in Russia tell a different story."
Mariya Omelicheva, associate professor of political science addresses:
"We need to dig deeper into Russia's own views of international politics in order to understand its foreign policy actions and decisions," said Mariya Omelicheva, associate professor of political science."
Source:
WHAT
IS
BEHIND
RUSSIA'S
RECENT
FOREIGN
POLICY
DECISIONS?
NOT
SIMPLY
TERRITORIAL
As author of the recent article published in the journal International Politics, Professor Omelicheva illuminated important differences in the ways Russian leadership views the world:
"How it defines threats to national and international security, and its views of international actors and its national identity."
Professor Omelicheva continues:
"In a way, Russia feels threatened by the United States, but that's only part of the story."
Source:
WHAT
IS
BEHIND
RUSSIA'S
RECENT
FOREIGN
POLICY
DECISIONS?
NOT
SIMPLY
TERRITORIAL
This professor in the political science explains:
"Another part is that Russia also feels an obligation or responsibility to act as a great power and the last final guardian of traditional values believed to be forsaken by the West."
Professor Omelicheva who is also director of the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies (CREES) addresses:
"Key points to consider are that Russia's foreign policy decisions that seem completely irrational to an outsider are perfectly rational from the Kremlin's point of view. Russia's rationality, however, has its own internal logic."
According to this political scientist, "Russia scrapping its plutonium agreement with the United States is a case in point."
Source:
WHAT
IS
BEHIND
RUSSIA'S
RECENT
FOREIGN
POLICY
DECISIONS?
NOT
SIMPLY
TERRITORIAL
Professor Omelicheva points out:
"It makes little sense given the wittingly unacceptable conditions that Moscow set for renewing the nuclear deal, including the reduction of the American forces in NATO countries near Russia's border, abrogating all sanctions against Russia and even compensating Moscow for losses resulting from those sanctions."
"The gesture," notes this political scientist, "is largely symbolic and was designed to bring Russia in the limelight of world attention as a nuclear great power capable of influencing developments in the international state."
Source:
WHAT
IS
BEHIND
RUSSIA'S
RECENT
FOREIGN
POLICY
DECISIONS?
NOT
SIMPLY
TERRITORIAL
Professor Omelicheva explains:
"Another is the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and its commitment to traditional values — as well as a supporter of Russian civilization, a largely constructed entity extending beyond Russia to include all peoples identifying with Russia through language, history, religion or values."
Source:
WHAT
IS
BEHIND
RUSSIA'S
RECENT
FOREIGN
POLICY
DECISIONS?
NOT
SIMPLY
TERRITORIAL
Mariya Omelicheva, director of the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies (CREES) says:
"In a way it's a symbiotic relationship."
This political scientist informs:
"The Russian state both empowers the church, but it also uses the church to promote its interests domestically and abroad."
Professor Omelicheva addresses:
"To protect these geopolitical views, Putin primarily has exerted used hard power — military involvement in Ukraine or restricting in Russia how Western organizations can operate — and soft power — relying on the symbolism of its political actions, like abrogation of the nuclear deal and seeing the Russian Orthodox Church expand into Europe, among others."
Source:
WHAT
IS
BEHIND
RUSSIA'S
RECENT
FOREIGN
POLICY
DECISIONS?
NOT
SIMPLY
TERRITORIAL
Mariya Omelicheva, director of the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies (CREES) says:
"She hoped her study would help enlighten discussions around U.S.-Russian relations and Russia's actions internationally, especially now when politicians and pundits debate the effectiveness of sanctions on Russia’s foreign policy conduct and international responses to Moscow’s military operation in Syria."
Source:
WHAT
IS
BEHIND
RUSSIA'S
RECENT
FOREIGN
POLICY
DECISIONS?
NOT
SIMPLY
TERRITORIAL
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