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Russia has always been regarded as “barbarian” and “the other” on the periphery by the West

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Mark Sleboda
Mar 11, 2013 21:24 Moscow Time
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Russia’s latest foreign-policy concept signals the continued gradual acceptance of modern geopolitical realities and trends which over the last decade or so have become increasingly difficult for Putin, the Russian foreign policy establishment and the political elite to ignore. Putin began his leadership of the Russian Federation back in 2000 with a sincere and genuine attempt at cooperation with the US and the EU. Several times since then, he has also attempted rapprochement and alignment with the West on condition that recognition of Russia’s core national interests and acknowledgment of Russia’s sovereignty are taken into account. Each and every time he has been rebuffed, ignored, insulted, and betrayed.

 
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A US-led West will never accept a strong, sovereign, and independent Russia. It will never acknowledge a Russian President and Russian political elite which does not fully accept the Western hegemonic order, liberal-neoliberal ideology, and the West-centric self-proclaimed “universal” social values. It is not enough to want to be “partners” of the West – Russia’s leaders must aspire to be the West.
Russia’s national interests must be in complete alignment with those of the United States. It must accept its subservient place in the global hierarchy. The US’s paranoid and solipsistic conception of security post-2001 demands an impossible absolute security for itself, at the cost of absolute vulnerability for every other country, as Putin rightly noted in his published foreign policy and security articles published during the 2012 presidential election campaign.
A Russia which insists on sovereignty, foreign policy independence, and a separate Russian national identity and which does not accept de-facto suzerainty and subservience with conditional sovereignty in the US-led Western hegemony can and will only ever be viewed as a threat and potential enemy. In essence, Putin will not accept the neutering and taming of Russia, and the West will not accept a Russia that has not been neutered and tamed.
Yes, the foreign policy concept still includes the still requisite rhetorical and diplomatic nods to dreams of an “integrated economic and security zone stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok” and that Russia still sees itself as part of a larger “European civilization”, but these are just flourishes for the sake of form and not rocking the boat too much before we are ready. No one really believes them anymore. They are neither realistic nor genuine. Very few in the Kremlin still harbour these delusions, and those that do are clearly on the way out the door. Everything from the requirement that Western GONGOs (government organized “non-governmental organizations”) register as foreign agents to the ban on Russian government officials owning property and assets in the US and Russia’s infuriating refusal to accept Western-backed regime change in Syria illustrates this as clear as day. This is not just a “pause” in relations – this is Russia finally deciding to go its own way.
Perhaps the most important – and most characteristic – aspect of Russian domestic and foreign politics is, and always has been, the contested internal struggle over Russian identity. The eternal question – is Russia part of the West or is it the center of its own distinctive civilization? This battle for the “soul” of Russia between Westernizers, “Modernizers” and Reformers, on the one side, and Slavophiles, Eurasianists, Nationalists and Communists, on the other, has defined Russia since the beginning of the Romanov dynasty. This was not a fight or a choice that Putin wanted to make. However modern geopolitical realities are forcing him to come down definitely on the side of the latter. Putin’s foreign policy focuses on integrating the Eurasian Union and solidifying its condominium with China to counterbalance the West clearly demonstrate this.
The truth is that the West has never considered Russia to be a part of Europe. Russia has always been regarded as “barbarian” and “the other” on the periphery. To be sure we have a common history and relations. Twice in the past two centuries, Russia has had to intervene militarily in Europe, both to defend itself from invasion and to prevent the emergence of a continent-wide tyranny. However the West refused to regard Russia as part of Europe. And in this, at least, it is right.
Simple geography dictates Russia’s geopolitical identity. Russia stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific and covers more than an eighth of the world’s surface. It has borders not only with Europe to the West, but with the Islamic world to the South, and Asia to the East. And it also has its own blessedly diverse ethnic makeup of many peoples who have never been part of the European experience or culture. All this ensures that Russia can never be just another “normal” European country nor an Eastern appendage to Europe. Dreams of Russia as part of a common Europe are predicated on a Europe that no longer exists – that is, Europe before its domination by the US and its institutionalization in the EU. There is no home for Russia in Europe.
Nor can the Russian state coalesce its identity around a Great Russian homogeneous ethnic-nationalism comparable to that which has been manufactured in Europe over hundreds of years of genocidal and fratricidal warfare, ethnic cleansing, and the institutions of modernity. This would mean denying her diverse constituency of over 160 ethnicities, breaking up into fragments, and leaving a rump “Russian state”. That would be a geopolitical disaster worse than the 1990s.
Moreover, Russia is no longer a global superpower and the day cannot be foreseen when it will ever be one again. No Universalist and crusading “civilizing mission” such as communism or liberalism drives her. She must come not only to accept her limited geopolitical horizons but to embrace them and focus her energies on reintegration with as many of the other Eurasian countries of the former Soviet Union and Russian Empire that are willing. This is Russia’s world – reconnection with those separated peoples who have been an intrinsic and valuable part of Russian civilization for the last several centuries. In pursuit of this integration, Russia needs to utilize “soft power” as a positive role model and present a compelling and attractive vision that would invite Eurasian cooperation in this endeavor.
Russia must introspectively and critically look inward and strengthen herself through regional integration, before turning to deal with the outside world. In so doing she will settle the dilemma of Russian identity once and for all – realizing and accepting her geopolitical role as the center of a separate and distinct Eurasian civilization.
No, this is not the economically most profitable path in the short-term. But the geopolitical and domestic realities for a foreign policy vision necessitate more than an economically reductionist point of view. It must be a broader and more far-sighted picture. Russia’s foreign policy vision must be ideational, cultural, and identity-centric.
However, this does not in any way necessitate a “clash” with the West or any other civilizations, as Huntington would have it. Russia can and must continue to do business with the EU and must deal with and come to terms with the US. Russia is part of the global economy and still interdependent economically with Europe. Both the US and the EU, in turn, must learn to accept an independent and sovereign Russia; the Russian economic and strategic pivot to China and Asia will help facilitate this in the medium term. Russia must also develop good and peaceful relations with the Islamic world; increasingly positive ties with Iran will be vital. Africa and Latin America are more distant and less crucial, but they have a cooperative role to play nonetheless.
The world inevitably is becoming more multi-polar; and Russia as the renewed heart of a Eurasian civilization at peace both with itself and with the Rest will be a constructive major part of and player in this new international system. Putin’s vision encapsulated in the new Russian foreign-policy concept is a bold step in this direction.
Mark Sleboda, Senior Lecturer and Researcher, Department of International Relations and Centre for Conservative Studies, Sociology Faculty, Moscow State University


 
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“A report called A World of Torture in 2013, assesses torture practices that continue to be alarming, from Pakistan to Italy, by way of South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Australia and Bolivia. From authoritarian regimes to democratic countries, none are exempt from criticism on the topic. In 2013, torture remains as endemic, omnipresent and multi-faceted as ever”.
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Entering the second year of his third presidency, President Vladimir Putin has shown uncharacteristically scant interest to foreign policy matters perhaps suspecting that Western “partners” are sponsoring Russia’s opposition movement and that neighboring post-Soviet leaders and even Chinese “friends” are losing confidence in his leadership. He keeps Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on a short leash—having him perform investor-courting functions—so that some more important government tasks are delegated to the newly-appointed Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Last week (March 5), Shoigu paid an alliance-reviving visit to Vietnam and finalized a deal on selling and servicing submarines, as well as negotiated a provisional agreement on the use of supply and maintenance facilities at Cam-Ranh by the Russian Navy (Rossiiskaya Gazeta, March 7). And yet, despite his domestic preoccupations, urgent matters in external affairs continue to demand Putin’s attention.

The gravest news last week was the death of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, which came as an unpleasant reminder that larger-than-life leaders are, in fact, mortal. Putin duly called Chavez a “big friend of Russia,” but clearly did not want to be associated with such fans of the late commandant as Alyaksandr Lukashenka or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. As a result, he sent to Caracas an embarrassingly low-level delegation headed by Igor Sechin, who had cultivated a personal friendship with Chavez but has no position in the current Russian government (Gazeta.ru, March 7). Venezuela has been one of the few “allies” valued for demonstrating that Russia still has a global reach of sorts. But now most of the investments in oil projects and loans for arms deals will likely have to be written off (Kommersant, March 7). Putin has never shared Chavez’s leftist passions but appreciated his sincere anti-Americanism, knowing that the Kremlin’s own invectives have to be tempered by “strategic” considerations. Therefore, Sechin saw nothing inappropriate in making a stop in Houston, Texas, on the way to Caracas in order to convince investors in the United States to financially back Rosneft (Newsru.com, March 8). What irks Putin most, however, was Chavez’s natural ability to connect with his electorate, while no amount of political “technologies” could check the alienation of Russia’s scandalously corrupt elites from the “masses.”

Another inescapable bother for Putin last week was the meeting with Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovich, who had celebrated the third anniversary of his electoral victory with the long-postponed summit with the European Union (Novaya Gazeta, March 4). Putin carefully tried to steer Yanukovich into a tight corner, where his only option should have been capitulation in the form of committing Ukraine to join the Customs Union of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus (Vedomosti, March 5). The Kremlin cannot quite understand how Putin’s “brotherly” counterpart managed to escape from this trap, but Yanukovich took full advantage of the cancellation of the visit to Moscow scheduled for last December to gain new space for maneuver (Gazeta.ru, March 6). His new leverage came from the steady weakening of Russia’s position on the European energy market. As a result, the Ukrainian president felt empowered to reject Moscow’s demand of a $7 billion penalty for not importing all the contracted volumes of gas in 2012 and to insist on re-negotiating the extra-high prices. Kazakhstan has also discerned this weakness and now demands higher prices for the gas that it exports to Russia, while emphasizing the new gas pipeline to China that will be completed next year (Kommersant-Vlast, March 4).

Yet another foreign policy headache is the sharp escalation of tensions on the Korean Peninsula following Pyongyang’s February 12 nuclear test conducted disturbingly close to the Russian border. The most disconcerting feature of this crisis for Putin is that Moscow has practically no say in its management. Rather, China decided what new sanctions to impose through the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2094 adopted last Thursday, and the US and South Korea attempted to figure out how to deter North Korea’s hysterical behavior (Kommersant, March 9). Putin cannot fail to see that Russia’s profile in the Asia-Pacific region that was expected to gain a boost from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Vladivostok last September is in fact fast shrinking. Much similar irrelevance is becoming a feature of Russia’s position on the Iranian nuclear program, which has driven the protracted international crisis to a high-risk final phase, while Moscow keeps pretending that a political solution exists (Nezavisimaya Gazeta, March 6).

The working assumption in Russian foreign policy appears to be that the Iranian crisis will not reach a “red line” until the civil war in Syria comes to an end—and the current assessment is that it is nowhere a final resolution. Moscow expects the West to become increasingly concerned about the consequences of a collapse of the Bashir al-Assad regime and so to curtail the support for the opposition, which resorts to such unacceptable actions as taking UN peacekeepers hostage (Kommersant, March 7). Indeed, US Secretary of State John Kerry prioritized Syria in his first meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. But despite the mutual satisfaction over this re-launched “reset,” there are few signs of any real intentions to reach common ground (Gazeta.ru, February 28). The Kremlin is not particularly concerned by the West’s supply of arms to the disunited Syrian opposition but is certain to be irked by last week’s ceremony at the White House where Elena Milashkina, a journalist from the fiercely independent Novaya Gazeta, received the International Woman of Courage award (Novaya Gazeta, March 9).

This deserved honor brings into focus the plain fact that the frustrations of Russia’s foreign policy originate at home. Every turn of events in the global arena reveals a particular weakness of the degenerating regime. Even International Women’s Day brought attention back to the outrageous persecution of the young women from the Pussy Riot punk rock group. Doubts in his ability to preserve monopoly control over political power are the main determinant of Putin’s decision-making, and a long track record in demonstrating confidence cannot bring back genuine belief in Russia’s rise. Although Putin’s position still remains quite strong, he does not appreciate his peers increasingly looking over his shoulder in search of his potential successor.

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Russian media have reported that Moscow’s envoy to the North Caucasus, Alexander Khloponin, is expected to become head of the board of directors of the Northern Caucasus Resorts Company by the end of May. Khloponin, thereby, will have the combined power of a deputy prime minister, Moscow’s plenipotentiary representative to the North Caucasus and commanding positions in a major government-supported company. In February, Khloponin’s deputy in the North Caucasus administration, Maksim Bystrov, became head of the Northern Caucasus Resort Company’s board of directors. According to the newspaper Kommersant, the plan is for Bystrov eventually to become general director of the company and for Khloponin to replace him as head of the board (http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2138357).

The major reshuffle in the Northern Caucasus Resorts Company began immediately after President Vladimir Putin visited the Olympic sites in Sochi on February 6 and singled out the ex-director of the company, Akhmed Bilalov, as the person responsible for price hikes and delays in building Olympic infrastructure. While heading the Northern Caucasus Resorts Company, Bilalov was also vice president of the Russian National Olympic Committee and took part in preparations for the Olympics in Sochi in 2014. Putin was visibly outraged by the fact that construction of a complex of ski jumps was not only delayed by several years, but also increased in price more than six-fold. Prosecutors quickly followed up on the case and found numerous instances of Bilalov overspending on trips abroad. Bilalov’s brother Magomed, who is a banker, was also accused of unspecified mishandling of government funds. Both brothers reportedly left Russia within days of Putin’s criticism and are currently in the famous German resort city of Baden-Baden—waiting, apparently, for Putin’s ire to subside (http://kommersant.ru/doc/2142912).

So far the accusations against Bilalov seem to be fairly trivial compared to the severity of the ostracism he has been subjected to. Bilalov was certainly not the only person who overspent or did not deliver on building Olympic structures on time. In fact, the Russian financial giant Sberbank had a 50-percent stake in the Olympic construction project and was reportedly responsible for the six-fold increase in price after it replaced a contractor. According to some reports, the Northern Caucasus Resorts Company may become the managing company for the Olympic sites in Sochi after the Winter Olympics in 2014. Some suggested this made Moscow wary of Akhmed Bilalov having too much control over such an enormous government project (http://www.bigcaucasus.com/events/topday/08-02-2013/82377-bilalov_otstavka-0/).

In the wake of Bilalov’s sacking, Khloponin is in a good position to assume ever more powers over economic and political developments in the North Caucasus. However, Khloponin’s personal gains may come at the price of further stalling the region’s development. According to a long tradition in the Russian state strategy toward the North Caucasus, the federal government invariably tries to centralize everything it can. When it comes to the region’s economic development in today’s world, however, this approach is unlikely to work, simply because of modern market rules, the fluidity of international capital and so on. In addition, the change in the management of the North Caucasus Resorts Company has overtones of Russian nationalism, given that Akhmed Bilalov, an ethnic Avar from Dagestan, was replaced by an ethnic Russian with no connection to the North Caucasus. This will have negative political reverberations across the region, particularly in Dagestan.

The top-down approach that Moscow has been taking to the economic development of the North Caucasus has produced little progress so far. In 2010, Khloponin unveiled plans to create a network of world-class ski resorts in the North Caucasus and create hundreds of thousands of jobs, thereby virtually eliminating (on paper at least) the endemic unemployment problem in the region. The Northern Caucasus Resorts Company that was established in 2010 was supposed to implement the government’s strategy. Since 2010, the company signed a number of protocols of intention with foreign companies and built several modest projects in Karachaevo-Cherkessia, where ski tourism had already been fairly well developed. Experts are divided over the future of the ski resorts in the North Caucasus, as some say the project is doomed, while others say it will be developed further, regardless of the personalities involved (http://www.bigcaucasus.com/events/topday/08-02-2013/82377-bilalov_otstavka-0/).

It is unlikely that the idea of building ski resorts in the North Caucasus will be abandoned before the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014, but the likelihood of the project’s survival afterward is fairly low. The Northern Caucasus Resort Company, however, may assume managerial control over the Olympic sites in Sochi and remain a lucrative asset financed by the government even beyond the 2014 Olympics. Bilalov’s dismissal indicates that Moscow wants economic development in the North Caucasus only if it is under the tightest possible control. This top-down approach, however, fails to take into account the various regional intricacies on which the success of the reforms depends. After three years of strenuous efforts to devise a viable strategy for the economic development and domination of the North Caucasus, Moscow appears to find itself back to square one, with no clear solutions in sight.

 
 

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3/12/2013: Will Russia's Cozy Relationship With Venezuela Die With Chavez? - Worldcrunch | Chavez's 'Bolivarian revolution' was a regional bust - Globe and Mail

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Успех России несовместим с верованиями оппозиционеров

«О неожиданных результатах голосования» + «Каспаров предсказывает, что к Сочинской олимпиаде произойдёт катастрофа (Грузия)».


Успех России несовместим с верованиями оппозиционеров

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Двое руководителей таможенной службы попались на взятке в 3 миллиона

Московское межрегиональное следственное управление на транспорте СКР возбудило уголовное дело по статье "Покушение на дачу взятки в особо крупном размере" в отношении двух …


Двое руководителей таможенной службы попались на взятке в 3 миллиона

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История непрерывного единства

Информационное агентство «Regnum» воспроизводит статью «Что мы за орган и чей?» без сокращений, вызванных ограниченностью площади печатной газеты «2000», и под исходным названием «Малая Русь или Украина?».


История непрерывного единства

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Прощание с Андреем Паниным

Гражданская панихида прошла в Московском художественном театре имени Чехова. Проститься с Андреем Паниным к старому зданию МХАТа в Камергерском переулке пришли сотни людей. Длинная очередь ещё до того, как открылись двери …


Прощание с Андреем Паниным

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Рустем Адагамов: Конклав, день I

Фотографии: © drugoi

11.03.2013, Италия | Труба, на которой сидит птичка, та самая, из которой повалит белый дым от сжигаемых бюллетеней кардиналов, выбравших нового папу римского. Так католический мир узнает о том …


Рустем Адагамов: Конклав, день I

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В Сургуте вооруженные омоновцы заставили мусульман срезать бороды

В Сургуте полицейские во время проверки чайханы «Халяль» под дулами автоматов заставили срезать бороды троих посетителей заведения.


В Сургуте вооруженные омоновцы заставили мусульман срезать бороды

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Tackling Corruption in a Globalized World

This is a transcript of an event held at Chatham House on 15 January 2013. The speakers discussed the main drivers of corruption worldwide and the current forms of action to control it, including the role of …


Tackling Corruption in a Globalized World

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Foreign Policy Challenges for the Obama Administration

This is a transcript of a speech made by Ambassador John R Bolton, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute and US Permanent Representative to the United Nations (2005-06), on 21 January …


Foreign Policy Challenges for the Obama Administration


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Propaganda & Mystery in Russia's Browder-Magnitsky Case

Conspiracies are the stuff of Russian politics, and the anarchy of online political discourse makes the RuNet an especially exciting place to watch conspiracy theories unfold. Consider the …


Propaganda & Mystery in Russia's Browder-Magnitsky Case

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Georgia's Democratic Path: Past, Present and Future

This is a transcript of a speech made by Irakli Alasania, Minister of Defence, Georgia, on 29 January 2013 at Chatham House. He outlined his government's vision for Georgia's future and explored …


Georgia's Democratic Path: Past, Present and Future

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Nuclear Iran: Negotiating a Way Out

This is a transcript of an event held at Chatham House on 4 February 2013. Dr Seyed Hossein Mousavian discussed the negotiation strategies of Iran and the six-nation group and offered thoughts on whether both …


Nuclear Iran: Negotiating a Way Out

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Дабл-Пехтинг или жулики гоу хоум!

I'm back, comrades! Кажется, нашел корзины, в которых наши кощеи заботливо хранят яйца своего политического бессмертия. И скоро мы их за эти яйца возьмем крепко. Читатели шутят: крепко возьмем их за фаберже!))) Моя …


Дабл-Пехтинг или жулики гоу хоум!

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Эльвира Набиуллина

Владимир Путин заявил, что предлагает своего помощника Эльвиру Набиуллину на пост главы Центробанка, - об этом сообщают информагентства. Ранее Набиуллина была министром экономического развития.



Биография

Родилась 29 октября …


Эльвира Набиуллина

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По делу приморских партизан - суд

Оригинал взят у roma987 в По делу приморских партизан - суд

Оригинал взят у gg_hohia в Как мусора сфальсифицировали явку с повинной Савченко и похитили Никитина по делу Приморских Партиза


В процессе по делу …


По делу приморских партизан - суд

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Дельфины украинского спецназа вооружены и опасны

Мировые СМИ облетела шокирующая новость: вооруженные дельфины из засекреченного спецподразделения по подготовке боевых животных совершили побег во время учений в открытом море. Дельфины вооружены …


Дельфины украинского спецназа вооружены и опасны

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Is China more democratic than Russia?

On paper, Russia’s political system is an impressive reproduction of Western representative democracy, while the Chinese system remains an unreconstructed autocracy. The reality of the situation is much more …


Is China more democratic than Russia?

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Social Media, Free Speech and the Law

This is a transcript of a speech made by Keir Starmer QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, UK, on 6 February 2013 at Chatham House. He discussed how the UK Crown Prosecution Service is approaching cases …


Social Media, Free Speech and the Law


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The Circular Economy: Redesigning the Future

This is a transcript of a speech made by Dame Ellen MacArthur on 14 February 2013 at Chatham House. Dame Ellen discussed the possibility of shifting to a circular economy that is not only sustainable, but …


The Circular Economy: Redesigning the Future

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Global Solutions to Sexual Violence in Conflict

This is a transcript of a speech made by Haja Zainab Hawa Bangura, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) on Sexual Violence in Conflict, on 18 February 2013 at Chatham House. She …


Global Solutions to Sexual Violence in Conflict
 
 
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