The countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will remain a priority in Moscow’s foreign policy. They have objective reasons for integration – the common Soviet past and the widespread use of the Russian language. Such statements were made by Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko at the Valdai discussion club, reports TASS…
“Wherever these countries go, no matter how they develop, they will always be among our political priorities,” Rudenko said during his speech “Space without Borders: Russia and Its Neighbors”. The Deputy Minister is confident that the integration in the post-Soviet space is facilitated by objective factors that will keep the CIS countries together, regardless of the wishes of “external players”.
Rudenko called the reason for this mutual attraction of the countries to the common Soviet past, as well as the Russian language, which is “one of those bonds that will continue to operate for a certain period of time.” At the same time, the Russian diplomat stressed that for 30 years the republics of the former USSR have emerged as independent entities with their own interests that do not always coincide with the interests of Russia.
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The process of the collapse of the Soviet Union, according to Rudenko, has a certain limit, so now the post-Soviet countries are united into new integration structures. “30 years after the civilized divorce, as the collapse of the USSR was called, our neighbors began to understand that it is possible to get a divorce, but there are certain limits, including limits associated with practical expediency, taking into account which one or another form of association should be chosen”, – explained to Rudenko the Foreign Ministry’s view of the CIS space.
Earlier, Russia sent a draft security agreement to the United States of America and the North Atlantic Alliance. In it, Moscow, among other things, demanded from Washington a guarantee of Ukraine’s refusal to join NATO.
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