No. 208: Post-Soviet De Facto States

Author(s): Carolina de Stefano, Benedikt Harzl
Series Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perović, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Volume: 208
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich; Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), George Washington University; Center for Eastern European Studies (CEES), University of Zurich; German Association for East European Studies (DGO)
Publication Year: 2017

This edition considers the question of post-Soviet de facto states. Firstly, Carolina de Stefano outlines how Crimea’s international isolation is proving a significant obstacle to the massive program of economic reforms introduced by the Kremlin. Secondly, Benedikt Harzl details how Russia’s citizenship and bilateral treaties with the breakaway Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are having adverse repercussions on aspects of Russian domestic and foreign policy.

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