From GeoPolitical Monitor
''As the global competition for markets and resources has intensified in
this last decade, with China recently surpassing Japan as the world’s
second largest economy and the United States and EU countries struggling
against the specter of recession, Moscow has manifestly set out on a
course of accelerated rapprochement with its former satellites. By
consolidating its ties with Belarus and Kazakhstan, and also by
practicing a stick-and-carrot approach to Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, Russia
expects to strengthen its strategic neighborhood and secure access to
local markets. However, Moscow also aspires to the role of a regional
hegemon, decades after the collapse of the Soviet empire.''
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