RUSYA FEDERASYONU’NUN YAKIN ÇEVRE POLİTİKASI’NDA DIŞ RUSLARIN YERİ VE KIRIM MESELESİ
Journal: DergiPark (Istanbul University)
Year: 2015

The Near Abroad Policy declared by the Russian Federation at the end of 1992 showed that Russia’s interest in the former Soviet States would continue even after the separation of Soviet Union. Protecting the ethnical Russian population living outside the Russian Federation, and their rights were specified as the main goals in the Near Abroad Policy revised after Putin’s inauguration as the President in 2000. In this context, having a significant ethnical Russian population in their land, Ukraine