Cordon sanitaire

Assessment Strategy


   Part of the strategy of encirclement of Russia a new cordon sanitaire organization called the Orange Revolution and the formation of anti-Russian post-Soviet political and economic blocs and regional groupings - in particular, ADD, ECO, Visegrad, GUAM and the Eastern Partnership. Vladimir Lukin, indicates the presence of questions to the U.S. on existing and planned them for placement in the Russian near abroad network of U.S. military bases and reference in these countries political intrigues: in spite of the denial of America thanklessness of their intentions, Russia is inclined to interpret the situation as the establishment of a cordon sanitaire "under the aegis of every word and assurances." He notes:

   The task of the United States is to answer these questions convincingly to us.

   Causing concern among Russian analysts and the West declared "war against terrorism". Andrew Fursov, director of the Institute of Russian history at Indiana University, department head of Asia and Africa INION Sciences, speaking of the modern sanitary cordon, for example, says:

   Ousting Russia from former Soviet Central Asian republics ... - a quiet, creeping political and economic war for the Russian heritage, and the so-called "anti-terrorist operation", in fact, is if you do not start it, the prologue to her, and the chief opponent of the war - Russia.

   Some politicians and political analysts believe that, as in the 1920-1930's, part of the cordon sanitaire of the country are so-called border state. Associate Professor of World Politics HSE, candidate of historical sciences Andrei Suzdaltsev in a review article of Yulia Tymoshenko provides "birthmarks" border countries:

   Parasitism on the geopolitical rivalry of external forces;

   Warming up their contradictions;

   Sale of any of them to its geopolitical orientation, offer their services;

   Drawing in foreign forces in their own unresolved issues with Russia, using them as arbitrators;

   Attempts to create alternative centers of Moscow's political influence;

   Anti-Russian information campaign.

   Director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, publisher of "Moscow Defense Brief" Ruslan Pukhov believes that pryavyaschie elite Eastern European countries consider their position cordon sanitaire main political resource and actively exploit it. In the preface to the published in 2005 a collection of articles Analyst Information Agency REGNUM "Russia and the" cordon sanitaire "," political analyst Gleb Pavlovsky wrote that the creation of a cordon sanitaire is a European business for the rejection of Russia in which "our allies - the peddlers of dangerous virus Evrovostok - zone infection.