Pakistan’s Role in Russia’s Greater Eurasian Partnership

... East isn’t Russia’s only southward interest, however, since it can be argued that Pakistan’s CPEC is much more important when it comes to non-energy, commercial economic activity. This is yet another point that can be made about the importance of Pakistan in the GEP and why it’s so puzzling that practically nothing has been written about its role in Russian grand strategy. That said, Russia’s future integration with Pakistan or any other country outside the former Soviet Union will have difficulty proceeding ...