EVOLUTION OF ROMANIAN-RUSSIAN POLITICAL-MILITARY RELATIONS POST-1989
1989 momentum triggered the Romanian escape from Communism. Thus, the situation started to change in the Romanian-Russian relations when Russia got smaller and Romania took the chance to make a different political turn and entered a step-by-step way toward democracy and western values. Meanwhile, o...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Academy of Romanian Scientists Publishing House
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Annals: Series on Military Sciences |
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| Online Access: | http://www.aos.ro/wp-content/anale/MTVol10Nr1Art.10.pdf |
| Summary: | 1989 momentum triggered the Romanian escape from
Communism. Thus, the situation started to change in the Romanian-Russian relations when Russia got smaller and Romania took the chance to make a different political turn and entered a step-by-step way toward democracy and western values. Meanwhile, on the way to nowadays, a lot of changes were produced in their bilateral relations moving between cooperation to confrontation, many of them being mainly the result of two factors: Romanian shift to the EuroAtlantic structures, policies and modus vivendi and Russia’s aggressive foreign
policy in its vicinity. As direct consequence, in the past two decades and a half from the collapse of the USSR, Romanian – Russian relations on the whole oscillated between tension and negative passivity on the grounds of former difficult historical legacy.
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| ISSN: | 2066-7086 2457-8312 |