Putin's Wars

by Marcel H. Van Herpen

  37. Dmitry Medvedev, “Relations between Russia and Ukraine: A New Era Must Begin,” President of Russia Official Web Portal, August 11, 2009. Available at http://eng.kremlin.ru/text/speeches/2009/08/11/0832_type207221_220745.shtml.

  38. Medvedev, “Relations between Russia and Ukraine: A New Era Must Begin.”

  39. Richard Sennett, Authority (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980), 89.

  40. Sennett, Authority, 79.

  41. Medvedev, “Relations between Russia and Ukraine: A New Era Must Begin.”

  42. “Ukraina ne stanet nablyudatelem pri TS do 2015 g.,” kapital.kz (May 20, 2013).

  43. Cf. Oleg Varfolomeyev, “Ukraine Seeks Both Association Deal with EU and Observer Status in Customs Union,” Eurasia Daily Monitor 10, no. 101 (May 29, 2013).

  44. Cf. Fyodor Lukyanov, “Imperiya sdala passport,” Rossiya v Globalnoy Politike (December 13, 2012).

  45. Vladimir Socor, “Will Poland Consider a Gas Deal with Russia at Ukraine’s Expense?” Eurasia Daily Monitor 10, no. 67 (April 10, 2013).

  46. Cf. Devin Ackles and Luke Rodeheffer, “Eurasian Paper Tigers,” New Eastern Europe (June 24, 2013).

  47. Oleksandr Sushko, et al., “EU-Ukraine Association Agreement: Guideline for Reforms,” Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, KAS Policy Paper, no. 20 (Kyiv, 2012), 6.

  48. Margarita Lyutova, “Ukraina stanet nablyudatelem v Evraziyskom Soyuze ne ranee 2015 goda,” Vedomosti (May 20, 2013).

  49. “Interview given by Dmitry Medvedev to Television Channels Channel One, Rossia, NTV,” Sochi (August 31, 2008). President of Russia Official Web Portal. http://www.kremlin.ru/text/speeches/2008/08/31/ (emphasis mine).

  50. Brzezinski, “The Premature Partnership,” 80.

  51. Brzezinski, Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power, 95.

  52. Another analyst of Polish origin, Janusz Bugajski, also warned that “Russia under Putin has evolved into an imperial project . . . . The Russian regime defines its national interests at the expense of its neighbors, whose statehood is considered secondary or subsidiary and whose borders may not be permanent.” Cf. Janusz Bugajski, “Russia’s Pragmatic Reimperialization,” Caucasian Review of International Affairs 4, no.1, (Winter 2010). http://www.cria-online.org/10_2.html.

  53. “The Polish Model: A Conversation With Radek Sikorski,” Foreign Affairs 92, no. 3 (May/June 2013), 5–6.

  54. “The Polish Model: A Conversation With Radek Sikorski,” 6.

  55. Vaclav Havel, “L’alliance euro-américaine doit s’approfondir en s’élargissant,” Le Monde (May 21, 1997).

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