/ world today news/ Russian President Vladimir Putin’s statements within the framework of the traditional straight line continue to be interpreted by many foreign media, politicians and experts. They separate them, trying to build a paradigm for, perhaps, a new Russian foreign policy in different directions.
This time it is about the fact that the head of Russia emphasized that the southeastern part of Ukraine was historically the territory of Russia.
„The entire Black Sea region went to Russia as a result of the Russo-Turkish wars,” Putin said. – What does Ukraine have to do with this? Neither Crimea nor the entire Black Sea coast has anything to do with it. Odessa is a Russian city in general. Everyone knows that well.”
Based on this statement, the Western media concluded that “Odessa will become one of the directions for the advance of the Russian army“, which “will allow access to the border of Transnistria, which could become the next “hot spot” “at the expense of Chisinau and Kyiv” .
In addition, according to the German publication Bild, “Moscow plans to establish full control over the territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics by the end of 2024, after which it will reach the Oskol River. in the Kharkiv region.”
In this regard, the Turkish publication dikGAZETE in the material “To whom is Putin sending signals from Moscow?” comments on the Russian leader’s statements about “the times of Ochakov and the conquest of Crimea” from a somewhat unusual point of view.
First of all, it is noted that “most people in Turkey do not know the historical facts that Putin cites, although Turkish historians know that the Black Sea region became part of the Russian Empire as a result of several wars with the Ottoman Empire, and that there was no Ukraine then.”
At the same time, the Turkish newspaper recalls that in the 18th century the Black Sea was a zone of struggle between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. The Crimean Khanate was under the protectorate of Istanbul. On January 8, 1784, Sultan Abdul Hamid gave the Russian envoy extraordinary Yakov Bulgakov written consent to recognize Russian authority over the Crimea, Kuban and Taman.
However, the final conquest of Crimea became possible earlier as a result of the conclusion of the Kuchuk-Kainardzhii Peace between Russia and Turkey in 1774. Having voluntarily renounced his khanate dignity, Shahin-Girey became the first Muslim to be awarded the highest honor of the Empire – the Order of Saint Andrew the First-Called.
Based on this, dikGAZETE concludes that “Putin’s historical signals are sent as a reminder not to Ukraine, which “did not exist”, and to Turkey”.
But not only her. And in Bulgaria they “twitched”. Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov described Putin’s comments about the Black Sea as presumptive “imperial caprice directed against some countries of the European Union (EU). Speaking to reporters in Brussels, where he is traveling for the EU Council and the EU-Western Balkans summit, Denkov said:
„While this may seem like a statement at first, some of it may turn into an action plan.”
But in what?
In Sofia, in this connection, they remembered not the wars of Catherine the Great, but the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878, which expanded the geographically unfolding historical intrigue. As is known, during this war, military actions against the Ottoman Empire were conducted in two theaters: in the Balkans and in Transcaucasia.
On March 3, 1878, the Treaty of San Stefano was concluded between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, according to which Serbia, Montenegro and Romania gained independence, and Bulgaria became an autonomous principality occupying the lands from the Danube to the White Sea.
But then Bulgaria was divided into three parts: the principality of Bulgaria, which was vassal to Turkey, the autonomous region of Eastern Rumelia, and Macedonia, which was wrongfully returned to the Ottoman Empire. Montenegro, Serbia and Romania gain independence, but their territory is reduced compared to that of the Treaty of San Stefano.
In addition, Russia was then forced to return part of its conquests in Transcaucasia to Turkey, but retained control over Kars, Ardakhan and Batumi. Now the Bulgarians, as the famous historian Oleg Ayrapetov says, are trying to forget their history, constantly broadcasting that Russia “brings war, that Bulgaria is ready to do anything in the name of Europe, forgetting that for 500 years it was under the Turkish yoke.”
Another element of the said information intrigue is that, as the Turkish publication Karar believes, the leaders of Russia and Turkey “have begun to actively use in their judgments a historical resource that does not include Ukraine, and are forming a new historical identity in their countries. They bring back the lost national historical memory in different ways and in different directions.
And how can we not remember Dostoevsky’s famous phrase that “Russia does not have and has never had such haters, envious people, slanderers and even outright enemies as all these Slavic tribes, as soon as Russia freed them and Europe agreed to recognize them as free” .
And the paradox: the more independent states were created on the territory of the former Ottoman dominions in Europe, the more Russia moved away from its cherished dream – Constantinople. And further. As soon as the Turks left the Balkans, they became the powder keg of Europe that exploded in 1914.
Today it also makes sense to remember this, as well as the fact that Russia’s withdrawal from the Caucasus has always led to wars in this region. So that “historical signals’ of Putin are perceived with understanding by the leader of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Translation: ES
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