title: A Historical Approach on Russian Foreign Policy in the Balkans (1945 -2022)
abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyze, from a historical standpoint, the development of Russian policy in the Balkans from the end of the Second World War to present day.The paper focuses on three major historical periods: the Cold War , the dissolution of the USSR and territorial changes in the Balkans (1990Balkans ( -2000)), and lastly the period of 2000-2022, which in political history studies is considered as a comeback of Russia as a prominent player in the region.The methodology employed