Rusya'nın Güney Kafkasya Politikası: Bölgesel Çatışma Alanlarında Rus Etkisi.

In this article, Russia's South Caucasus policy has been examined and its impact on the problems in the region has been discussed. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, many states that were included in the union were dissolved, while regions with many different ethnic origins within the disbanded states attempted to declare independence. This situation has created both new conflict areas in the region and has exposed many problems in the past. This is especially evident in the South Caucasus and Central Asia, which are defined as the Balkans of Eurasia. The reason for writing the study is to explain the impact of Russia, which is a global power and sees the South Caucasus as its own backyard, on the Abkhazia-South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh conflicts that have become chronic in the region with its approach to the region. Although there are differences in Russia's approach to the problems in the region, basically Russia wants to prevent the countries of the region from becoming members of the EU and NATO. Because with the membership of the countries of the region to the EU and NATO, Russia will be surrounded, and the West will expand a little more towards the former Soviet geography. This is a situation that will harm both Russia's security and political position, and it does not seem possible for Russia to accept it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]