The foreign policy of Russia during the years of the Yugoslav crisis (1985-1995)

The crisis of the Yugoslav Federation is a difficult test not only for the peoples of its inhabiting, but for all of Europe. European countries, the USA, Russia and the entire world community were looking for ways to solve many complex problems generated by the collapse of the SFR, the USSR and Czechoslovakia. The policy of the USSR in recent years and new Russia regarding the decaying Yugoslavia was difficult and ambiguous. On the basis of published documents, Yugoslav and Russian archival materials, the book examines the stages of the foreign policy of the USSR/Russia in the Balkans in 1985–1995, during the reign of M. S. Gorbachev and B. N. Yeltsin, when the Minister of Foreign Affairs was A. V. Kozyrev, as well as the factors that affect its formation are analyzed