Search: Disintegration of the Soviet bloc (22 materials)

 

Tajikistan: the results of “The parade of sovereignties”

The Soviet Brethren Have Cooled off to One Another Tajikistan was the least inclined towards complete independence from Moscow after the collapse of the USSR. However, twenty years later the Russian-Tajik relations strongly resemble the family on the brink of divorce. Can you evade the fate by running away? Independence crashed on Tajikistan like a mudflow with all the political forces in the republic taken aback. The thing is that the national-state demarcation in Central Asia at the time of the...

26.01.2012

Turkmen-russian relations in the Post-Soviet era

The way back to Ashgabat is not closed to Russia. Russia ’s influence in Turkmenistan was to a considerable extent lost after Turkmenistan gained independence. Do independent Turkmenistan and Russia need each other today? Will the partnership go beyond the issues of gas? One thing is evident: the way back to Ashgabat is not closed to Russia. Forced out of the USSR The political system of Turkmenistan at the time of perestroika displayed sufficiently strong inertia even in comparison with...

26.01.2012
 

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