Russian Foreign Policy and the Balkans in the 1990s
Russian Foreign Policy and the Balkans in the 1990s

Summary/Abstract: In the initial phase after the collapse of the USSR, Russian diplomacy lacked vision and initiative, generally following the West’s lead, including its policy towards the Yugoslav crisis (1991–95). It was only from about 1994, and as a result of the decision to expand NATO into Eastern Europe, that it sought to become more synchronized with the prevailing mood in Russian society, increasingly disillusioned with Western policies. There was a change in the phrasing of official statements,but the Russian Foreign Ministry in fact continued to follow the West and supported the severe anti-Serbian sanctions regime...

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