Postsovjetska politika Borisa Jeljcina prema NATO-u
ORIS YELTSIN'S POST-SOVIET POLICY TOWARD NATO

Summary/Abstract: From its founding in the decades that followed, NATO was tasked with protecting the Euro-Atlantic allies from potential Soviet aggression. After the collapse of the socialist empire thirty years ago, the relationship between the new Russia and the Alliance was marked by ups and downs.During the 1990s, President Yeltsin believed that with American and Western European support and financial aid, the economic and social problems of post-Cold War Russia would be „expressly” solved. However, such a policy soon was proved to be wrong, moreover illusory. Poor Russians were dissatisfied and disappointed, and their president did not know how to „calm passions” at home without anti-West narrative and accusations for Russian problems.Yeltsin‘s indecisiveness and lack of a clearly defined foreign policy strategy were evidenced by his empty threats regarding the expansion of NATO alliance as well as his lack of understanding of the Yugoslav crisis. In fact, Yeltsin failed to abandon some key principles of Soviet foreign policy, and to adapt the new Russia to its objective possibilities and needs in international relations.

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