Resisting the West, Forging Regional Consensus: Russia’s Discourse on Humanitarian Cooperation in the Commonwealth of Independent States
Journal: Geopolitics
Year: 2018

This paper analyzes Russia’s discourse on humanitarian cooperation in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the changes it has undergone since the reintegration of the Crimean peninsula in March 2014. This is a particularly pertinent task, given that the discourse on humanitarian cooperation was initiated in 2005 to convey to the regional elites Russia’s commitment to uphold the principles of sovereignty and non-interference and to ensure the stability of their regimes. Applying the c