Written by: Nikoloz Chkhaidze Nikoloz Chkhaidze is a Research Assistant to Dr. Taras Kuzio at the Henry Jackson Society think tank in London, UK. He is studying International Relations at the International Black Sea University and a research assistant to Dr. Nikolai Wenzel in International Political Economy. He was an Alumni of “The Fund for American Studies 2021 Croatia Program”. After Putin declared war on Ukraine, in his famous speech on February 24 th , where he labeled his war as a “special military operation to demilitarize and “denazify” Ukraine, to “prevent them from committing genocide in the Donbas”, [i] the whole world was wondering who would win the war and what effects the war would have on the post-war international political environment. In this policy brief, the author will try to analyze the role of Russia in international politics after Putin’s war in Ukraine. The author is going to use qualitative methods to analyze the effects that the war will have on R