CENTRAL ASIA AND RUSSIA’S EURASIAN STRATEGIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
CENTRAL ASIA AND RUSSIA’S EURASIAN STRATEGIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: As an political actor who has proposed the restoring of bi-polarity in international relations, the Russian Federation has begun the diplomatic and economic subordination of its lost regions in the Caucasus, Western Russian, Central Asia and other regions. In the eyes of many Russian analysts and strategists, external frontiers of CIS constitutes Russia’s first line of defense. More than this, Central Asia is considered a major link in the perimeter of Russian security. Russia divides a good part of its borders with Central Asia. In this respect, Moscow has initiated various mechanisms of cooperation and control to ensure its own national security. Control of energy resources of the Central Asian and Caspian Basin influenced the evolutions from ex-Soviet space, and in this context, ex-Soviet states, including those in Central Asia, have become actors but also targets of global economic war for control and ways of access of energy resources. Through the GAZPROM Company, Russia has come to exercise a good part of its strategies agreements in post-Soviet space, and therefore. Central Asia, has gradually started to be dominated by Russia not in traditional territorial acquisitions with army force, but with economic weapon. So, the energy-diplomacy has been syntagm under the auspices of Russia's increased interest in Central Asia. In fact, the Kremlin has not hidden one moment his desire to promote its interests in former Soviet area and Central Asia occupies a privileged position in contemporary Russian offensive. So, step by step, Central Asia and its adjacent areas, came back under Moscow's influence, starting from 1991 year.

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