title: The Rising Cost of Russia’s Authoritarian Foreign Policy
abstract: The swift military annexation of Crimea in March 2014 has raised numerous questions and revived many myths about Russia's imperial identity and ambitions. It has been too hastily interpreted as a sign of Soviet-style imperial revival in continuity of tsarist rule. If this was Russia's motivation, the Ukraine adventure was no success. Moscow stepped back from annexing Ukraine's eastern provinces and had to recognize the legitimacy of elected President Petro Poroshenko and agree to negotiate with 
journal: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks