INTEGRATION OF EURASIA AS A RUSSIA'S GLOBAL GEOPOLITCAL PROJECT Cover Image

INTEGRACJA EURAZJI JAKO GLOBALNY PROJEKT GEOPOLITYCZNY ROSJI
INTEGRATION OF EURASIA AS A RUSSIA'S GLOBAL GEOPOLITCAL PROJECT

Author(s): Olga Wasiuta
Subject(s): History, Geography, Regional studies, Regional Geography, Recent History (1900 till today), Geopolitics
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Geopolityczne
Keywords: Eurasia; Eurasian integration; Russian geopolitics; eurasianism;

Summary/Abstract: We live in a time of intensive process of creating a new geopolitical space,aimed at the creation of the “great spaces”. Russia is trying to prevent alternative ways of development of the countries of the CIS, while pushing them to join the structures of the Eurasian Union. Implementation of the plans of Russia, accompanied by pressure on the CIS countries, has both a direct and indirect nature. The Russian Orthodox Church is trying also to maintain some of the CIS countries(first of all: Belarus and Ukraine) in the orbit of Russian spiritual world. The main objective of the foreign policy of Vladimir Putin is to create a political and economic structure with the capital in Moscow. This can be considered as a traditional Russian geopolitical imperatives, because in different historical periods they have been put into practice, especially in the period of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, in the place they are trying to create a new structure – the Eurasian Union, to which they intend to draw the Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 07
  • Page Range: 37-59
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Polish