EVOLUTION OF ROMANIAN-RUSSIAN POLITICAL-MILITARY RELATIONS POST-1989

• Main Author: Mirela ATANASIU
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Academy of Romanian Scientists Publishing House 2018-06-01
• Series: Annals: Series on Military Sciences
• Subjects: tensions; cooperation; Romania-Russia; political-military relations; passivity; aggression
• Online Access: http://www.aos.ro/wp-content/anale/MTVol10Nr1Art.10.pdf

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.