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Article: Russian irredentism after the Georgian Blitzkrieg.(RUSSIAN IRREDENTISM)(Essay)
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- Contemporary Review
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- March 22, 2009
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RUSSIA has emerged from the war with Georgia in August 2008 with considerable strategic challenges: it is becoming clear that the rule of force is relapsing in the post-Soviet area. Having withdrawn from the Armed Forces in Europe Treaty in 2007, Russia is militarizing its Caucasus and European frontiers, disregarding Western efforts to bring it back to the treaty regime. Whilst gloating over the failure of Georgia and Ukraine to secure a NATO membership in December 2008, Russia herself is facing an economic downturn caused by the global financial crisis and the continuing slide in world oil prices. Moscow has to reconcile this economic impact with Russia's resurgence as a ...
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