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Examines how Vladimir Putin's foreign policy aims at securing an important role for Russia in the post-Cold War era, establishing stable foreign relations and seeking a rapprochement with former allies such as North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, and Iraq, 2000-2001. Summary in English.

Organización del Tratado Atlántico Norte (OTAN). Examines the role of Poland as a member of NATO in increasing and consolidating European security, and implications of its membership for its relations with Russia.

Following the reelection of Vladimir Putin in March 2004, many have raised questions on the nature of changes & readjustments that will be implemented to both the domestic & foreign policies of the Russian Federation over the next four years. Concentration of power by the presidential figure will be an ongoing & even stronger trend throughout the second term &, according to supporters of this approach, the purpose is to secure Russian state interests & to reinstate the country in its past status of grand power. Foreign policy must be built according to both national interests & the priority of solving domestic problems, & the need to economize foreign activity. Russia will be capable of protecting its own interests & gaining new allies only insofar as it becomes a strong & autonomous State. Russia will hardly become again the power rod able of counterbalancing the U.S. supremacy; however, it still holds a considerable number of opportunities & sway in several regions of the world, namely the Euro-Asian zone. Adapted from the source document.

This article looks back at the hits and misses made by the Russian Federation since the 1980s, with the arrival of Perestroika and the break-up of the Soviet Union. Since then radical and contradictory restructuring and reform processes have developed in the Soviet and post-Soviet space that are without precedent in the national political panorama. Amidst liberal reforms, the attempt to democratize society, the flourishing of nationalism and the new idea of Russia, internal wars advance and retreat almost simultaneously. Russia returns to the international stage as a major, leading power, displaying notable advances in the political, social and economic order compared to previous decades, including the Leonid Brezhnev epoch in the 1970s. Adapted from the source document.

During recent years, relations between the Russian Federation, the European countries & the United States have become strained to the point that they have even involved NATO. Opposing positions of Russia & the United States, in the European sphere, are causing confrontation in the region. Russia has gained strength, as oil & gas prices have remained high during recent years & it is trying to recover its position as an independent, global power, not perhaps within a bi-polar, but rather in a multi-polar order of nations. Divergent interests & goals of the Russian & United States' governments, concerning a European & global security policy, make the conflict-prevention & peace-keeping environment on the continent even more difficult. Adapted from the source document.