For the last decade, the game of “world chessboard” seems to be playing hard in the field of foreign policy. Relations between Russia and the United States remain rather “cold”, while alliances and agreements with European Union countries continue.
According to several international analysts, Moscow is trying to gain … territory in three former Soviet countries such as Ukraine, Georgia and Belarus. Russia, with the blessings of its president, Vladimir Putin, has “invaded” indirectly in the above states and is trying through its alliances to build an “informal” alliance. Initially it threatens with its army observed on the borders of several countries, such as Ukraine. There, as many international media say, he is trying to create and maintain a cold conflict, as he has done in the past in Crimea, Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Transnistria and Abkhazia. Gradually, all Eastern European states are entering a process of latent and constant “cold conflict”, which seems to threaten the stability of the European Union.
The above raises questions about the attitude of the states as everything shows that Putin is not ready to stop the expansionist policy. It remains unknown, of course, where and when he intends to stop, as there is no resounding response, a good “slap” in Moscow for what he is doing. A strong response could put a brake on expansionist politics and the occasional “hybrid war” waged by the Russian president (as he did with immigrants in Belarus).
The misinformation
Many foreign publications report that in addition to the hybrid war and the “expansionary foreign policy” that follows, Moscow is also engaged in misinformation campaigns, both in Ukraine and in Europe. Her goal? Hold several demonstrations, for example in Ukraine, and increase aggression in the region. At the same time, misinformation helps Russia destabilize countries and try to “manipulate” political situations and governments, of course sometimes violating the independence of states and their sovereignty. Other times, these tactics create humanitarian and refugee crises, as happened with Belarus, which is a problem in the European Union, as immigration is a problem that has plagued the “Old Continent” for years. All this, of course, without anyone intervening. It is clear, according to the same international analysts, that there is no “united front” of the West towards the Russian president and the increased indirect aggression he is displaying in third countries.
Vladimir Putin, in addition, seems to have taken on the role of “victim” and accuses both NATO and the European Union of violating Russia’s rights in Ukraine. Of course, NATO and the EU do not seem ready to respond immediately. According to several international analysts, some states may have fought in the Cold War against the Soviet Union, but today some democracies, such as Ukraine, are under threat, and no one seems ready or willing to intervene.
The violation of human rights
In both 2014 and 2019, the European Court of Justice had convicted Russia of violating several human rights. These are just two of the many times Moscow has been convicted. In particular, in 2014, the European Court of Human Rights convicted Russia of a series of violations of the European Convention on Human Rights in the “Agriculture v. Russia” case.
The case concerns a series of arrests, detentions and mass deportations of thousands of Georgian nationals to Russian territory by Russian authorities in the autumn of 2006. The court found, among other things, a violation of Article 3 (prohibition of humiliating or ), 4 (prohibition of mass deportations), 5 paragraph 1 (right to liberty and security) and paragraph 4 (right to judicial control of detention).
At the same time, in 2019 Russia was again convicted of a series of human rights violations in the case of the death in prison of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009, which caused a serious diplomatic crisis between Washington and Moscow. He was arrested in November 2009 at the age of 37. He was arrested after complaining of a significant corruption network while working for the tax office of a Moscow-based law firm, which included clients of Russia’s largest Western investment fund, Hermitage Capital.
The European Court of Human Rights then highlighted the abuse he suffered from guards shortly before his death and noted the “incomplete and ineffective” investigation into the circumstances of his death, the gaps in the medical care provided to him, as well as and the fact that his posthumous trial and conviction, “substantially inadequate”, were carried out in violation of his right to a fair trial.
International analysts point out that frequent violations of international rules can lead to the destabilization of areas and raise questions about when Moscow will start respecting these rules. Moscow may seek the respect of its rivals, but it tends to act as a country that does not apologize and does not care what is going on in the world but does it on its own. The violation of human rights sends a creepy message to all minorities and Ukrainians about what to expect if Russia further escalates its actions against Ukraine. No one can forget what happened to the Crimean Tatars during the annexation of their territory by Russia in 2014. The dangers of ethnic cleansing are enormous, considering that these events have happened again in the past.
After all, in the past in several countries Moscow has violated borders, has been involved in assassinations (in several of which chemical weapons were used), has manipulated political processes, has financed uprisings and all this while claiming to be “defending itself”. in Western aggression “. The “cold relations with the West remain and the pieces are set again on the world chessboard, in an endless game.
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