2023: Stabilisation After the Shake-Up

... peaceful life, openness and cooperation—had become too familiar. In relations with the West, it began to wind down long before 2021. Cracks began to appear in the late 1990s... ... confrontational events: the acceleration of the arms race, NATO expansion, large-scale sanctions, attempts to isolate Russia, military and financial assistance to Ukraine... ... military operations that are incapable of gaining the support of both the elites and society at large? Last year ended with unanswered answers to these questions; 2023 added...