Russian Interests in Moldova: Limiting Ukraine’s Security Alternatives
Russian Interests in Moldova: Limiting Ukraine’s Security Alternatives

Summary/Abstract: What are the Russian interests in Moldova? The usual answers are: defense of Russians all over, the strategic control of NATO extension through Transnistria, reformation of the Russian Empire based on the reshaping of the CIS, the super-confederation with the capital in Moscow, control upon the former Soviet space and upon the “close neighborhood” etc. Without denying the viability and reasons behind each of these ideas, we must approach this issue from another angle: the one regarding the limitation of Ukraine’s strategic options.

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