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    REFLECTIONS ON RUSSIAN COMPATRIOT POLICY IN COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES
    (СДУ хабаршысы - 2017, 2017) Assanbayev M.B.
    Abstract. The last year marked the 25 years of the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Despite the existence of criticism in certain media and analytical circles in respect to the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) activity, the organization has firmly established itself as an essential format for further cooperation of the participating countries. No doubt the main positive outcome in creating CIS has been peaceful divorce of post-Soviet states (unlike former Yugoslavia). Today, each post-soviet republic has been recognized to be an integral part of international relations. However, there have been also serious challenges and crucial political developments within the framework of the CIS. In August 18, 2009, a year after the Russian-Georgian war in South Ossetia, Georgia officially left the CIS. In the same vein after the annexation of the Crimea into Russia in 2014, Kyiv has limited its participation in CIS to a lesser extent. At the same time the ongoing armed conflict between the Ukrainian government and pro-Russian separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics in South-Eastern regions of Ukraine has entirely divided the nation. Unfortunately, this split is going to last for a few generations further. The 1993 Charter of the CIS stresses, in Article 3, the principle of «inviolability of state frontiers, recognition of existing frontiers and renouncement of illegal acquisition of territories». However, this fundamental agreement did not prevent the emergence of political and territorial claims between Russia and some CIS-member-states. The post-soviet space is still considered to be a conflict-prone area, where the potential challenges and threats still exist in regard to territorial integrity and stability of some post-soviet states despite the fact that the present state frontiers of these states have been recognized internationally. One of the reasons that resulted in the emergence of this kind of challenge was incubated in the contemporary Russian foreign policy towards its «compatriots» residing in the post-soviet states. In this regard, understanding the Russia’s compatriot policy toward ethnic Russians, Russian speakers and others in post soviet states has become significant part of contemporary Russian foreign policy