RUSSIA’S EVOLVING EURASIA STRATEGY: The Carnegie Institute reports that Russia’s “new geopolitical framework is being referred to as Greater Eurasia.”

The strategic concept:

Instead of integrating into a Western-led system or reintegrating recalcitrant ex-provinces, Russia could develop a “global Russia,” geared to its own values, interests, and goals. This aversion to formal integration should not spell autarky or isolationism. Russia vitally needs to integrate, but into the global system as a whole, not into tight regional or transregional alignments. Also, rather than simply criticizing U.S. global dominance, Russia would do better to engage with like-minded partners to create an international system that no single power would dominate.

Good read.