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CIS Countries Becoming West’s ‘Cordon Sanitaire’ to Contain Russia, Moscow Specialist Says

10:19 10/12/2009

The countries of the CIS, which are gradually being converted into ‘a cordon sanitaire,’ are called upon to restrain Russian geopolitical ambitions,” in much the same way, his use of this term implies, that Europeans sought in the years before World War II to surround Soviet Russia with a similar “cordon.”

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10:19 10/12/2009 The countries of the CIS, which are gradually being converted into ‘a cordon sanitaire,’ are called upon to restrain Russian geopolitical ambitions,” in much the same way, his use of this term implies, that Europeans sought in the years before World War II to surround Soviet Russia with a similar “cordon.”>>

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