From Constructive Destruction to Gathering
Journal: Russia in Global Affairs
Year: 2022

n 2021, Russia's foreign policy seems to have entered a new stage. Let us call it the "constructive destruction" of the previous model of relations with the West. Elements of this policy kept piling up for some fifteen years, approximately since Vladimir Putin's well-known speech in Munich in 2007. But residual attempts to fit into the Western system with a defensive approach still prevailed in politics and rhetoric.