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| Russia and the Former Soviet Space: Instrumentalizing Security, Legitimizing Intervention V Rotaru, M Troncotă Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018 | 6 | 2018 |
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| Russia's Emerging Global Ambitions M Kaczmarski, A Monaghan, V Rotaru NATO Defense College., 2020 | 2 | 2020 |
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| Between Integration and Intervention: Russia and the European" Near Abroad" After 2009 V Rotaru Military Publishing House, 2016 | 2 | 2016 |
| Instrumentalizing the Sources of Attraction: How Russia Undermines Its Own Soft Power V Rotaru | 1 | 2015 |
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