1. Cold War Legacies and Gorbachev New Thinking

2. Key principles of Yeltsin’s Foreign Policy

3. Russian-American relations under Yeltsin

4. Russian-European relations under Yeltsin: Yugoslavian wars, EU, Central Europe

5. Russian policy of Near Abroad

6. Russian policy towards Asia and Middle East in Yeltsin times

7. Key principles of Foreign Policy in Putin/Medvedev era

8. Russian-American relations in Putin Era: from pragmatic cooperation to hostility

9. Russian-European (EU) relations in Putin Era

10. Russian-Chinese and Russian-Middle Eastern relations in Putin era

11. Russian Eurasian policy

12. Russian-Ukrainian conflict

13. Role of International organizations in Russian foreign policy strategies