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Criticism of Russia's policy
Doctor of Historical Sciences Lilia Shevtsova of the Carnegie Moscow Center pointed out in Der Spiegel, that building around Russia cordon sanitaire energized unprofessional Foreign Policy. Andrei Kolesnikov, journalist and director of the Center of political philosophy, considers the views on post-communist states as part of a cordon sanitaire "no definite shape until the end of the state ideology of the Russian Federation".
The opposition politician Grigory Yavlinsky believes that "Russia's authoritarian government itself creates around itself a cordon sanitaire". His on-partisan "Apple" Alexei Arbatov, Doctor of History, deputy chairman of the Duma Defense Committee, said that Russia should prevent the emergence of a hostile cordon sanitaire of the post-Soviet states and their transformation under the influence of other powers by abandoning the use of armed force and account for differences in relations with these states.
News agency Reuters in an analytical article by Oleg Shchedrov describes the West's efforts to encircle Russia with a new cordon sanitaire as a bitter look at things from Moscow - and quoted an unnamed Kremlin official on the military response to Georgia, Russia in August 2008:
This could be Georgia or something else, but something must have been a "last straw". We can not endlessly retreat with a smiling face.