title: Russia’s Regional Policy: Unlearned Lessons of Local Conflicts
abstract: The goal of this article is to identify Russia's policy options during local conflicts in the post-Soviet space.Our research is empirical.The research question is how Russia chose its "involvement" options in post-Soviet local conflicts?The independent variable is Russian regional politics; the dependent variable is local conflict in a post-Soviet country (cases of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Chechnya).The hypothesis is that Russian politics played a significant role in post-S
journal: European Political and Law Discourse