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Moscow’s Actions in Ukraine Helping China Make Siberia and Central Asia Beijing’s ‘Near Abroad’

August 25, 2014
Window on Eurasia

Staunton, August 23 – Both Russian and Asian analysts say that Moscow’s focus on Ukraine is allowing Beijing to accelerate the process of transforming both Russia east of the Urals and Central Asia into its “near abroad,” thus undercutting in the east the very policy goals Vladimir Putin has proclaimed in the west. In Nezavisimaya […]

Oligarchic Capitalism Blamed for Loss of Russia’s Position in Former Soviet Republics

June 12, 2014
Ukraine
Window on Eurasia

Staunton, June 12 – The Russian Federation, by focusing on the construction of “oligarchic capitalism,” essentially “threw all the union republics” to their own fates, and as a result, the governments and peoples have turned away from Moscow and ethnic Russians are fleeing back to Russia, thus further undermining Russian influence. That harsh judgment, one […]