ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the shifts in Russian foreign policy toward the specific areas. Next, it illustrates how the Kremlin began to shift its policies to adjust to its critics, primarily by adopting an 'independent' foreign policy. The chapter explores the development and content of the Primakov Doctrine and its support of multipolarity as a corrective for American-dominated unipolarity. Critics of the Yeltsin-Kozyrev foreign policy also set their sights on Russia's relations with the ethnic Russian diaspora specifically, and Russia's relationship with the rest of the former Soviet Union generally. During 1992, Russian policy toward the Baltic states followed the Atlanticist line of respecting the sovereignty of these newly independent states and looking to international institutions to deal with the treatment of the Russian minority there. Nevertheless, the perception developed that the Kremlin was acquiescing to the whims of the hegemonic coalition in order to appear 'civilized'.
