Russia: Foreign Policy Strategic, Economic Trade Security and Culture
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Russia is one of the three global major powers. Recently Russian has changed her focus of foreign policy toward East and Southeast Asia known as ‘Pivot to Asia’ or turn East policy. Asia becomes a focus of attention as Russia uses to be noted as minor player. President Vlardimir Putin’s foreign policy announcement in 2000 and 2016 has shown Russian’s national interest in strengthening economic, political development and promoting international trade so that Russia will re-assume her position as world leader once again. President Vladimir Putin tried to promote the strategic partnership between Russian, China and ASEAN. However, attempts to create a bond between Russia and ASEAN are not comparable to the relationship of its competitors, such as China and the United States. The main obstacles to promoting the relationships between Russia and ASEAN are the geographical distance, insufficient knowledge and mutual understanding, including little activities among each other. Therefore, Thailand should promote closer bilateral relationships with Russia, especially in balancing the powers in the ASEAN region between China and the USA.
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