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Center for International Relations
and Sustainable Development

Russia and the Geopolitics of Eurasia

Nikolay Silaev is Research Director of the Foreign Policy Advisory Group and a Senior Researcher at the Center for Caucasian Studies at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. Andrey Sushentsov is Program Director of the Valdai Discussion Club Foundation, Director of the Foreign Policy Advisory Group, and Associate Professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. This essay is adapted from a report entitled “Russia’s Allies and the Geopolitical Frontier in Eurasia.”