Abstract

This paper aims to analyze two main events that took place in the post-Soviet space and roused the academic and political debate in the West: the January events in Kazakhstan with the first intervention of the CSTO and Russia’s “Special Military Operation” in Eastern Ukraine. Contrary to some experts’ worries about the participation of the Russian Army in the CSTO intervention into the sovereign territory of Kazakhstan, the CSTO troops left the Central Asian country at an established time. One month later the Russian Army entered Ukraine demonstrating to the world that contemporary Russia has not abandoned its dream and aim of rebuilding a multi-national structure led by Russia. The “Special Military Operation” has brought back to the academic debate the concept of Eurasianism, an ideology that has influenced post-Soviet Russia’s politics and that has been mentioned by the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, in important speeches. Eurasianism will be deeply analyzed in this paper since this ideology, “buried” in libraries for years, has conquered the highest sphere of Russian power. Eurasianism, as well as the intervention in Kazakhstan and Ukraine, have been enforced by the presence and support of a political partner that lies East: the People’s Republic of China.

Key words: Eurasia, Central Asia, CSTO, Eurasianism, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, EAEU, Russia.