Peninsula Crimeea: reduta Federației Ruse pe direcția Marea Neagră – Marea Mediterană
Crimean Peninsula: the redoubt of the Russian Federation in the Black Sea - Mediterranean Sea Direction

Summary/Abstract: In order to reaffirm itself as an uncontested global actor, the Russian Federation aspires to „new horizons” where the „Putinist” ideology could be easily adopted by authoritarian/dictatorial elites and moves the effort’s centre of gravity towards projecting the doctrine away from Europe and into Africa, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. In this context, the EU and NATO enlargement process in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and the resilience consolidation of the states in the respective areas have determined the Russian Federation to reconsider their eff ort on the Western Strategic Direction (defence consolidation, harassment and interests promoting through third parties) and to capture the initiative on the South-Western Strategic Direction. The newly created and consolidated outpost (the Crimean Peninsula) was quickly transformed from a territory that was conquered, estranged, leased and then reclaimed into a stronghold on the South-Western Strategic Direction and use as a natural extension of the territorially -expansionist foreign policy of the Russian Federation Crimean Peninsula’s return to the „motherland” was followed by ample programmes meant to easily connect the Peninsula to the Russian continental land from economic, transport infrastructure and especially military standpoints. The latter was carried through overcrowding the newly acquired land with personnel and equipment.

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