energy superpower ambition
Estonia
ethnic conflicts
Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre
European Union
F
Fallon, Michael
Federal Agency for Government Communication and Information (FAPSI)
Federal Border Guard Service
Federal Customs Service
Federal Guard Service (FSO)
functions
military element
personnel
Service for Special Communications and Information (SSSI)
Federal Migration Service
Federal National Guard Service of the Russian Federation (FSNG)
personnel
remit
subordinated directly to the president
Federal Security Service (FSB)
absorbs other security organizations
economic security service
Information Security Centre
militarized elements
personnel
power and potential influence
quasi-military organization
Special Operations Centre
successor to KGB
wide-ranging functions
Federal Service for the Control of the Drugs Trade (FSKN)
counter-demand interventions
creation and dissolution
law enforcement operations
multilateral cooperation
personnel
repressive approaches
scandals and corruption
Federal Service for the Execution of Sentences (FSIN)
Federal Tax Police Service
financial monitoring
Finland
armed forces
defence budget
First World War
force structures
background and origin
conscripts
corruption
domestic policy considerations
inter-service rivalry
international operations
multilateral security cooperation
‘new’ security challenges
ongoing inefficiencies
overlapping functions
personnel
political significance of
post-Cold War years
post-Soviet era change
presidential bloc
problems of coordination and cooperation
small-scale and low-intensity missions
socio-economic considerations
supra-agency coordinating bodies
terms of service
Yeltsin era
see also specific agencies
Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)
cyber warfare capability
personnel
foreign policy
centrality of great power status
domestic factors
energy policies and
geostrategic concerns
increasing assertiveness
interests and threat perceptions driving
interplay of conflict and cooperation
military power, role of
in the ‘near abroad’
‘paradigm shift’
persistent factors
post-Soviet
sovereignty and
Soviet
see also multilateralism; territorial expansion
France
Fuller, William
G
Galeotti, Mark
Galtung, John
Ganeyev, Vladimir
Gareev, Makhmud
geopolitics
Georgia
2008 war
considers strategic axis with Russia
NATO membership
operational failures in
Russian relations with
see also Abkhazia
Gerasimov, Valerii
Germany
Gorbachev, Mikhail
and dismantling of KGB
and great power status
New Thinking on Russian international status
and Russian participation in UN missions
Gordon, Michael
Gorenburg, Dmitry
Grachev, Pavel
great power status
central Russian value
centrality of strong military
and foreign policy making
historical self-perception as
loss of
multilateral security cooperation as factor in
restoration of
Gressel, Gustav
ground forces
hardware modernization
mobility and combat readiness
see also armed forces
Gryzlov, Boris
Gulf War (1991)
‘guns-or-butter’ dilemma
H
Hagel, Chuck
Hanson, Philip
Heistein, Ari
Helsinki Final Act
Herbst, John
Herd, Graeme
HIV/AIDS epidemic
Hodgson, Quentin
Hoffman, Frank
Hosking, Geoffrey
human rights abuses
humanitarian interventions
implications for sovereignty
instrumentalism
hybrid warfare
characteristics of
in Crimea
Gerasimov doctrine
origins of concept
quasi-theory of Russian foreign policy
support of target population
in Ukraine
vagueness and overuse of the term
I
Iceland
imperialism
and foreign policy making
imperial legacy
neo-imperialism
Implementation Force (IFOR)
import substitution
India
insurgencies
intelligence and counterintelligence activities
inter-service coordination
Interior Ministry (MVD)
internal order see domestic order and regime stability
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
Iraq
humanitarian aid to
regime change
war (2003)
Islamic State
Israel
Italy
Ivanov, Igor
Ivanov, Viktor
Ivashov, General Leonid
J
Jackson, Robert
Johnson, Dave
K
Kazakhstan
KGB
First Chief Directorate
successor organizations
Khrushchev, Nikita
Klein, Margarete
Kofman, Michael
Korzhakev, Aleksandr
Kosovo Force (KFOR)
Kosovo War (1999)
Operation Allied Force
Kozyrev, Andrei
Kramer, Mark
Kramnik, Ilia
Kuwait
Kyiv
Kyrgyzstan
L
Latvia
Lavrov, Sergei
law-enforcement operations
Lebed, General Alexander
Lenin, Vladimir
liberal international order, threat to
Libya
Light, Margot
Lithuania
Lo, Bobo
Lugansk
Lukyanov, Fyodor
M
Macierewicz, Antoni
Maidan movement
Main Directorate for Special Programmes under the President
Makarov, Nikolai
Makarychev, Andrey
Malashenko, Aleksei
Malaysian airliner MH17, downing of
Mankoff, Jeffrey
Markedonov, Sergei
mass-mobilization army
Masters, Jonathan
Mearsheimer, John
media freedom, restrictions on
Medvedev, Dmitri
Merry, E. Wayne
Michlin-Shapir, Vera
military expenditure see defence budgets
military operations
in the Balkans
in the CIS
early post-Soviet years
low-intensity
in the ‘near abroad’
out-of-area operations
small-wars scenarios
see also specific conflicts and interventions
military power
capabilities, intentions to use
domestic order and
foreign policy tool
post-Soviet degrading of
uses of since 1991
see also armed forces; great power status; imperialism; multilateralism; sovereignty
military reform see military revival