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The foreign policy of Vladimir Putin concerns the policies of Russia's president Vladimir Putin vis-a-vis other nations. He held office from 2000 to 2008, and assumed power again in 2012. As of late 2013, Russian-American relations were at a low point.〔 The United States canceled a summit (for the first time since 1960), after Putin gave asylum to Edward Snowden. Washington regarded Russia as obstructionist and a spoiler regarding Syria, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela. In turn, those nations look to Russia for protection against the United States.〔 Europe needs Russian gas, but worries about interference in the affairs of Eastern Europe. Russia remains angry over the expansion of NATO into Eastern Europe. Central Asia sees Moscow as a former overlord, which is too powerful to ignore, even as countries assist American involvement in Afghanistan. In Asia, India has moved from a close ally of the Soviet Union to a partner of the United States with strong nuclear and commercial ties. Japan and Russia remain at odds over the ownership of the Kurile islands; this dispute has hindered cooperation for decades.〔 China has moved from a client state of Russia in the 1950s, to a bitter antagonist in the 1960s and 1970s, to a situation where its economic powerhouse sees Russia as a source of raw materials, as well as an ally in the United Nations.〔Shuster, Simon. "(The World According to Putin )," ''Time'' Sept 16, 2013, pp 30-35〕 In 2014, with NATO's decision to suspend practical co-operation with Russia and all major Western countries' decision to impose a host of sanctions against Russia, in response to the Russian military intervention in Ukraine, Putin's Russia's relationship with the West came to be characterized as assuming an adversarial nature, or the advent of Cold War II. ==Notable foreign policy speeches by Putin== * Munich Conference on Security Policy on 12 February 2007 * the Crimean speech (March 18, 2014) * the Valdai speech (24 October 2014 in Sochi city; analysts consider it a follow-up to Putin's 2007 Munich speech where he began to outline his views on world order) and * another Crimean speech, delivered on December 4, 2014.〔(http://eng.kremlin.ru: Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly ) (full text)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Foreign policy of Vladimir Putin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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