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Putin quoted by Maria Antonova, “State Lays Claim to Geography Society,” The St. Petersburg Times (November 20, 2009). The speech was held on November 18, 2009, when Putin became head of the Society’s Board of Trustees. Putin’s sudden interest in Russia’s oldest organization seemed less motivated by scientific than by geopolitical reasons. According to Antonova, “Tsar Nicholas I created the Russian Geographical Society in 1845 as part of the imperial drive for geographical expansion and exploration of the country’s natural resources.”

24.

Gleb Bryanski, “Putin, Medvedev Praise Values of Soviet Union,” Reuters (November 17, 2011).

25.

“Moscow Fleshes Out ‘Eurasian Union’ Plans,” EurActiv (November 17, 2011).

26.

“Moscow Fleshes Out ‘Eurasian Union’ Plans.”

27.

“Eurasian Union Proposal Key Aspect of Putin’s Expected Presidency,” EurasiaNet.org (October 7, 2011).

28.

Tropkina, “Yevgeny Primakov nazval usloviya dlya uspekha Evraziyskogo soyuza.”

29.

Prof. Sheng Shiliang, “Putin’s Eurasian Chess Match,” Valdai Discussion Club (October 31, 2011).

30.

Katharina Hoffmann, “Eurasian Union: A New Name for an Old Integration Idea,” Russian Analytical Digest no. 112 (April 20, 2011).

31.

Andrei Liakhovich, “The Reasons behind Putin’s Unprecedented Generosity Towards Lukashenka,” Belarus Digest (January 5, 2012).

32.

Andrew Wilson wrote that Lukashenko “might find a new role with Putin by selling Belarus as an exemplar in Russia-supported integration schemes such as the Eurasian Union. Russia cannot allow Belarus as a member of the Eurasian Union to go bust because that would seriously undermine the whole idea of Russian-sponsored integration projects.” (Cf. “Andrew Wilson on His Belarus Book and Lukashenka’s Survival,” Belarus Digest (December 4, 2011).)

33.

“Russia-Belarus Union State May Take Backseat if Eurasian Union Project Pans Out: Lukashenko,” RIA Novosti (November 18, 2011).

34.

Halbach, “Vladimir Putin’s Eurasian Union: A New Integration Project for the CIS Region?”

35.

Tropkina, “Yevgeny Primakov nazval usloviya dlya uspekha Evraziyskogo soyuza.”

36.

Halbach, “Vladimir Putin’s Eurasian Union: A New Integration Project for the CIS Region?”

37.

On the influence of Carl Schmitt’s geopolitical Grossraum theory on Medvedev’s proposal, see my paper “Medvedev’s Proposal for a Pan-European Security Pact: Its Six Hidden Objectives and How the West Should Respond.” http://www.cicerofoundation.org/lectures/Marcel_H_Van_Herpen_Medvedevs_Proposal_for_a_Pan-European_Security_Pact.pdf.

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This part of the Kremlin’s hidden agenda is also emphasized by Marlène Laruelle, who wrote: “Putin’s Eurasian Union project is aimed mainly at Central Asia, less at the South Caucasus, with the ultimate aim and supreme reward being the potential reintegration of Ukraine into the Russian bosom” (emphasis mine). (Cf. Marlène Laruelle, “When the ‘Near Abroad’ Looks at Russia: the Eurasian Union Project as Seen from the Southern Republics,” 9.)

39.

“Posol RF: Moldaviya i Tamozhennyy soyuz: vozvrat v proshloe ili proryv v budushchee?” Regnum (February 7, 2012).

40.

Vladimir Socor, “Putin Suggests Transnistria Self-Determination, Rogozin Displays Transnistria Flag,” Eurasian Daily Monitor 9, no. 149 (August 16, 2012).

41.

Socor, “Putin Suggests Transnistria Self-Determination.”

42.

George Niculescu, “The Myths and Realities of Vladimir Putin’s Eurasian Economic Union,” The European Geopolitical Forum (January 8, 2013).

Part II

The “Internal War”

Consolidation of Power

Chapter 6

Russia as a “Pluralist” One-Party State