title: What is Russia trying to defend?
abstract: Contrary to the focus on the events of the last two years (2014-2015) associated with the accession of Crimea to Russia and military conflict in Eastern Ukraine, in this study, I stress that serious changes in Russian domestic policy (with strong pres sure on political opposition, state propaganda and sharp anti-Western rhetoric, as well as the fight against "foreign agents') became visible in 2012. Geopolitical ambitions to revise the "global order" (introduced by the USA after the collapse of 
journal: Russian Journal of Economics