Russia Is Interested in Redoing the Architecture of European Security

After break up of the soviet union, assumption was that georgia, ucrane, bellarus would be this thing. The russians were livid, but again, still too weak to respond just as they allowed cosawa to happen. Right russia is interested in redoing the architecture of security in europe as a whole. It also wants to have, in a sense, a veto power. In other words, they want a mine u. N security council in europe. And thenah, you have the situation that the russians now feel that they have got some er leverage, not leverage, that they have come of age.