Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 07/2014

Afghanistan: A View from Moscow

Dmitri Trenin, Alexey Malashenko

April 2010

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Abstract

Despite its importance, Russia’s perspective on the war in Afghanistan has typically been missing from previous analyses of coalition policy. Moscow views Afghanistan largely through the prism of security threats to itself and its Central Asian neighborhood.