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Legacy Of “Friendly Neutrality” Goals Of Soviet Policy

... Turkey can be characterized as complex. Attempts by the Ottomans to capture Zaporozhye and Left Bank Ukraine, along with raids launched by the Crimean Tatars, were replaced by the Russian state’s struggle with the Ottoman Empire for access to the Black Sea after the unification of the Muscovite Kingdom and the Zaporozhye Army, which then led to a series of RussianTurkey wars. As is commonly known, throughout the period from 1676 until 1918, there were eleven such wars. The events from those centuries ...

19.11.2024

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Chinese Octopus: How China Is Taking Over the Post-Soviet Space

Russia wants to take proactive steps to benefit from this increased Chinese presence in post-Soviet space Tea and Cognac: A macroeconomic outlook on Chinese investments in the Black Sea In May 2017, Beijing and Tbilisi signed a Free Trade Agreement, almost one year after the entry into force of the Association Agreement between the European Union and Georgia. Besides the political success (it took only a couple of years for ...

18.06.2019

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