TERRITORIAL ENCLAVES OF FORMER USSR IN THE CONTEXT OF RUSSIAN NATIONAL SECURITY
Journal: Historical and social-educational ideas
Year: 2016

The article examines Russia's relations with the territories of post-Soviet, Pro-Russian oriented in its political, economic and socio-cultural areas of development. Analyzes the military capabilities of these enclave regions from the point of view of creating arcs of safety in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus with the aim of countering NATO expansion to the East. The issue of national security has consistently revealed during the study of external threats to Russia in the early 1990s, the conseq