Dmitry Medvedev's Speech On Russia's Strategic Borders
One may not like Russia or even feel hostile towards its current policies and leadership.
But that should not hinder one to recognize and acknowledge how Russia is seeing itself and it defines its own role in the wider world.
The former Russian president Dimitry Medvedev is currently the deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia recently spoke about multiple definitions of borders.
Medvedev has lately become a bit of the bad guy who spits the harsh truth with the good guy being Russia's President Vladimir Putin who is using less vitriolic language. But if one removes the rhetoric chaff the concepts espoused by both in various speeches are quite similar and should be seen as the basis of Russia's policies.
The Russian magazine Expert reproduced an edited version (in Russian) of Medvedev's speech (machine translation):
Dmitry Medvedev: "Russia, like any great power, has strategic borders far beyond geographical ones"
The speech presents a Russian view on the border concept along six theses.
Below are some excerpts which I believe deserve a further discussion:
First. We don't need someone else's land. We will never give up on our own. So it was and so it will be. This is the principle that governs our state border policy.
...Cont. reading: Dmitry Medvedev's Speech On Russia's Strategic Borders
Posted by b at 8:40 UTC
