Russia continuously reviewed and adjusted its foreign policies after independence. Its policies towards the United States experienced four stages characterized successively by the following: from June 1991 when Russia...Russia continuously reviewed and adjusted its foreign policies after independence. Its policies towards the United States experienced four stages characterized successively by the following: from June 1991 when Russia declared its independence to July 1992, Russia pursued the pro American diplomatic policy; from July 1992 to May 1996, Russia no longer followed America blindly and turned to “two headed eagle diplomacy”which balanced the importance to both the East and the West; ever since June 1996, independent and multi directoinal diplomacy with striving for the power status as the core was formed and its policy towards the United States entered into a new phase; from March 1999 when US led NATO bombed the Yugoslavia till now, Russian US relations entered into a complex and subtle period of “Cold Peace”.展开更多
文摘Russia continuously reviewed and adjusted its foreign policies after independence. Its policies towards the United States experienced four stages characterized successively by the following: from June 1991 when Russia declared its independence to July 1992, Russia pursued the pro American diplomatic policy; from July 1992 to May 1996, Russia no longer followed America blindly and turned to “two headed eagle diplomacy”which balanced the importance to both the East and the West; ever since June 1996, independent and multi directoinal diplomacy with striving for the power status as the core was formed and its policy towards the United States entered into a new phase; from March 1999 when US led NATO bombed the Yugoslavia till now, Russian US relations entered into a complex and subtle period of “Cold Peace”.
