Abuzar Faiz
On September 05, Russian
President Vladimir Putin signed
off on a new foreign policy plan
that aims to "protect, safeguard, The
and advance the traditions and
ideals of the Russian World."
RUSSIAN
Through this document,
dubbed as "humanitarian policy,"
Russia has made protecting,
safeguarding and advancing the
traditions and ideals of the
Russian World its official
doctrine. The concept of a
"Russian World" is a notion that
WORLD
hardliners have used to justify
intervening abroad to support
Russian speakers, such as in parts
of Ukraine. And, the new doctrine
also justifies intervention abroad
in support of Russian speakers
and ethnic Russians outside of the President Valadimir Putin has approved a new foreign policy doctrine that is
country. based around the concept of a “Russia World,” which relies on radical policies
Why this Policy?
like those used to justify Moscow’s war in Ukraine. While presented as a kind
With the collapse of the Soviet
Union in 1991, a number of of a soft power strategy, it enshrines such official policy ideas around Russian
Eastern Bloc countries broke away politics and religion that some hardliners have used to justify Moscow’s
from the USSR and became occupation of parts of Ukraine and support for breakaway pro-Russian entities
independent, but around 25 in the east of the country. The new policy says that Russia should increase
million ethnic Russians found cooperation with Slavic nations, China, and India, and further strengthen its
themselves living outside Russia. ties to the Middle East, Latin America and Africa. It said Moscow should further
West Slavs are in Poland, Czech deepen its ties with Abkhazia and Ossetia, two Georgian regions recognized as
Republic and Slovakia, East Slavs independent by Moscow after its war against Georgia in 2009, as well as the
are in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine,
two breakaway entities in eastern Ukraine, the self-styled Donetsk People’s
while South Slavs are in Croatia,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic.
Bulgaria, North Macedonia,
Montenegro and Slovenia.
President Putin thinks of the
collapse of the USSR as the
"greatest geopolitical
catastrophe" and has been
highlighting, for years, what he
sees as the tragic fate of those
millions. It was one of his
predecessors, Mikhail Gorbachev,
who failed to prevent the break-
up.
But till today, Moscow has
continued to view the former
Soviet lands, from the Baltics to
Central Asia, as its legitimate
sphere of influence - a notion
strongly resisted by many of those
countries as well as by the West. Russia’s Concept for a
It is due to this reason that ‘Humanitarian’ Policy Abroad
On September 05, Russian
President Vladimir Putin signed
off on a new foreign policy plan
that aims to "protect, safeguard, The
and advance the traditions and
ideals of the Russian World."
RUSSIAN
Through this document,
dubbed as "humanitarian policy,"
Russia has made protecting,
safeguarding and advancing the
traditions and ideals of the
Russian World its official
doctrine. The concept of a
"Russian World" is a notion that
WORLD
hardliners have used to justify
intervening abroad to support
Russian speakers, such as in parts
of Ukraine. And, the new doctrine
also justifies intervention abroad
in support of Russian speakers
and ethnic Russians outside of the President Valadimir Putin has approved a new foreign policy doctrine that is
country. based around the concept of a “Russia World,” which relies on radical policies
Why this Policy?
like those used to justify Moscow’s war in Ukraine. While presented as a kind
With the collapse of the Soviet
Union in 1991, a number of of a soft power strategy, it enshrines such official policy ideas around Russian
Eastern Bloc countries broke away politics and religion that some hardliners have used to justify Moscow’s
from the USSR and became occupation of parts of Ukraine and support for breakaway pro-Russian entities
independent, but around 25 in the east of the country. The new policy says that Russia should increase
million ethnic Russians found cooperation with Slavic nations, China, and India, and further strengthen its
themselves living outside Russia. ties to the Middle East, Latin America and Africa. It said Moscow should further
West Slavs are in Poland, Czech deepen its ties with Abkhazia and Ossetia, two Georgian regions recognized as
Republic and Slovakia, East Slavs independent by Moscow after its war against Georgia in 2009, as well as the
are in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine,
two breakaway entities in eastern Ukraine, the self-styled Donetsk People’s
while South Slavs are in Croatia,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic.
Bulgaria, North Macedonia,
Montenegro and Slovenia.
President Putin thinks of the
collapse of the USSR as the
"greatest geopolitical
catastrophe" and has been
highlighting, for years, what he
sees as the tragic fate of those
millions. It was one of his
predecessors, Mikhail Gorbachev,
who failed to prevent the break-
up.
But till today, Moscow has
continued to view the former
Soviet lands, from the Baltics to
Central Asia, as its legitimate
sphere of influence - a notion
strongly resisted by many of those
countries as well as by the West. Russia’s Concept for a
It is due to this reason that ‘Humanitarian’ Policy Abroad
