Russian Geostrategy Map New Entries (3), 20 Aug. 2025

Diplomatic Subversion vs. France in New Caledonia

Serving Objective 3: Enhancing internal political instability and polarization within Western states

30 Jul 2025. The Russian foreign ministry attacks France’s policies in New Caledonia, accusing Paris of limiting he rights of the territory’s indigenous population, suppression of the protests, political repression, and inability to deal with the “growing socio-economic problems,” and adding that New Caledonia’s decolonization process has not been completed.
https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/2038686/#011

Diplomatic Subversion in Kosovo

Serving Objective 7: Achieving instability in the Western Balkans

25 Jul 2025. Moscow accuses Kosovo of “unending ethnic cleansings,” and “growing terror against the Serb residents.”
https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/2038085/

Military Presence in Georgia

Serving Objective 10: Achieving decisive influence over Georgia

6 Jun 2025. One of the leaders of Russia’s proxy regime in occupied Abkhazia says regarding a Russian naval base in Ochamchire that “the deployment of such a point, where ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet can be promptly serviced, we regard as an additional factor of stability and an opportunity to ensure high standards of security in the region.”
https://jamestown.org/program/russian-black-sea-fleet-intends-to-establish-base-in-abkhazia/

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