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Over the coming years, Russia will begin to form around itself a pan-region of dependent regions, which will include former Soviet republics. Geostrategist Andrei Shkolnikov said this on air on the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “By the end of the twenties, we will begin to form our own large pan-region - a territory that is dependent on us technologically, economically, militarily...
Olga Skabeeva’s husband, Russian State Duma deputy Evgeny Popov, called on his colleagues to enroll in interparliamentary cooperation groups, the so-called “friendship groups” - for the purpose of soft international influence. So far, only 130 out of 450 deputies have signed up, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. “I ask you to take this seriously. Soft power is a very important aspect of international politics, and we must...
For Kyiv, Minsk was a stabilizing factor before the start of the unrest, but if Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko turns towards Russia, this will mean a geopolitical reshuffle of forces in the Eastern European region in favor of Moscow. Ukrainian political scientist Vadim Karasev stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Lukashenko until August 2020 was a factor...
Despite the fact that in Turkey the Tatars are considered a kindred people, not a single serious politician in Ankara expects that Crimea will ever return to their control. Political scientist Rostislav Ishchenko spoke about this on radio Aurora, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The former Crimean Khanate is a traditional ally for Turkey. Türkiye still feels a sense of certain obligations to...
Pro-Western sentiments are strong in the western regions of Belarus and are strengthened by the active policies of Poland. Professor of the Academy of Military Sciences Alexander Tikhanovsky said this on air on the YouTube channel “SPEC”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. “I would not talk about separatist, but about pro-Western sentiments. The western regions of the Brest and Grodno regions and the north of the Vitebsk region are pro-Western. Due to the fact that…
Russia has “neither the ability nor the inclination” to interfere in the situation in the Balkans; its influence is limited to the countries of the “near abroad.” Visar Khambazi, a researcher at Dominion University in the US state of Virginia, writes about this in The Globe Post, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The Western Balkans are surrounded by EU and NATO members and are more than a thousand miles from Russia, leaving...
Russian President Vladimir Putin in the near future, most likely, will use not military methods to put pressure on Ukraine, but other tools - the economy and influence on the Ukrainian elite. Subscribe to the news “PolitNavigator - Kyiv” on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte This opinion was expressed in an article for the Ukrainian website “Apostrophe” by Russian liberal political scientist Liliya Shevtsova. “Putin has the opportunity...
