The Romanian-Russian bilateral relationship in the aftermath of Romania’s Euro-Atlantic Integration
The Romanian-Russian bilateral relationship in the aftermath of Romania’s Euro-Atlantic Integration

Summary/Abstract: Romanian-Russian relations have been plagued by tension over a host of issues ever since the end of the Cold War. Bilateral problems such as the returning of the Romanian national treasury, as well as multilateral issues like the denunciation of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact of 1939, energy security and different rival energy infrastructure projects, regional democratic transformation on EU and NATO borders, the American missile shield in Eastern Europe, etc have acted as an obstacle to an efficient détente and normalization between Moscow and Bucharest since 1991. Although bilateral relations have taken a clear path towards normalization since 2003, mutual mistrust and suspicion acts as an obstacle in furthering relations on a pragmatic and mutually beneficial basis.

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