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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Vestnik RUDN. International Relations</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Vestnik RUDN. International Relations</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Международные отношения</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-0660</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2313-0679</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Российский университет дружбы народов имени Патриса Лумумбы» (РУДН)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">25963</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-0660-2021-21-1-148-156</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ИСТОРИЯ МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫХ ОТНОШЕНИЙ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="zh"><subject>双方关系历史</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">The Role of the Cyprus Issue in the Greek-Soviet Relations (1956-1960)</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Кипрский вопрос в отношениях между Грецией и Советским Союзом (1956-1960 гг.)</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Tasoulas</surname><given-names>Argyrios</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Тасулас</surname><given-names>Аргириос</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD Researcher, Department of Theory and History of International Relations</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>аспирант кафедры теории и истории международных отношений</p></bio><email>argyr22@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">RUDN University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Российский университет дружбы народов</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2021-03-18" publication-format="electronic"><day>18</day><month>03</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>21</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">Conceptualizing the Problems of World Politics through the Prism of IR Theory</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Концептуализация проблем мировой политики сквозь призму теории международных отношений</issue-title><fpage>148</fpage><lpage>156</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2021-03-18"><day>18</day><month>03</month><year>2021</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2021, Tasoulas A.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2021, Тасулас А.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2021</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Tasoulas A.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Тасулас А.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/25963">https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/25963</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The article examines the role of the Cyprus issue in the bilateral relations between Greece and the USSR in 1956-1960. It is based on primal archival research realised at the Constantine Karamanlis Archive (AKK) and at the Diplomatic and Historical Archive of the Greek Foreign Ministry (DIAYE) in Athens. The analysis of the recently declassified documents relate to the events which took place in 1954, when the Soviet Union supported the Greek claims for self-determination of the Cypriot people in the United Nations on the basis of the anti-colonial principles. This contributed to the impressive increase in trade between Greece and the USSR, especially after the unofficial visit of the Soviet Foreign Minister D.T. Shepilov to Athens in 1956. Against the backdrop of the deterioration of the international situation in 1957, Kremlin heavily criticized NATO’s decision to deploy the US Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBMs) in Europe and applied diplomatic pressures to NATO member-states including Greece. The shift from tensions to a peaceful offensive strategy, characteristic of the Soviet diplomacy towards Greece, proved to be a double-edged sword for Moscow in the long term. The author concludes that both countries exploited the Cyprus issue for their benefit. Thus, Moscow managed to take advantage of the Greek discontent with the NATO allies as a means of increasing its own prestige in the region, while the Greek governments capitalized on the Soviet tactics in order to increase its political leverage in confronting NATO on Cyprus.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Анализируется роль кипрского вопроса в двусторонних отношениях Греции и СССР в 1956-1960 гг. Работа выполнена на основе исследований, проведенных в архиве Константиноса Караманлиса (AKK) и Дипломатическом и историческом архиве Министерства иностранных дел Греции (DIAYE) в Афинах. Анализ недавно рассекреченных документов относится к событиям 1954 г., когда Советский Союз поддержал притязания Греции на самоопределение кипрского народа в ООН на основе антиколониальных принципов. За этим последовал существенный рост объемов торговли между Грецией и СССР, особенно по итогам неофициального визита министра иностранных дел СССР Д.Т. Шепилова в Афины в 1956 г. На фоне обострения международной обстановки в 1957 г. Кремль выступил с критикой решения НАТО по размещению американских баллистических ракет средней дальности на подводных лодках (БРПЛ) на территории Европы, пытаясь оказать дипломатическое давление на страны - члены НАТО, включая Грецию. Характерные для советской дипломатии в отношении Греции переходы от напряженности к мирной наступательной стратегии в долгосрочной перспективе привели к весьма неоднозначным результатам. Автор приходит к выводу, что обе страны использовали кипрский вопрос в собственных интересах: Москве удалось воспользоваться недовольством Греции своими союзниками по НАТО как средством повышения собственного престижа в регионе, в то время как греческое правительство взяло на вооружение советскую тактику для усиления политических рычагов в противостоянии НАТО по Кипру.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>the Cyprus issue</kwd><kwd>Greece</kwd><kwd>the Soviet Union</kwd><kwd>Greek-Soviet relations</kwd><kwd>self-determination</kwd><kwd>Cold War</kwd><kwd>United Nations General Assembly</kwd><kwd>NATO</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>кипрский вопрос</kwd><kwd>Греция</kwd><kwd>Советский Союз</kwd><kwd>греко-советские отношения</kwd><kwd>самоопределение</kwd><kwd>холодная война</kwd><kwd>Генеральная Ассамблея ООН</kwd><kwd>НАТО</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Alecou, A. 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