Russia and CIS countries: the relations getting mature

20 years on. How has the world changed since the disintegration of the USSR? The disintegration of the Soviet Union has crowned nearly a 500 year-long period of Russian history when imperial regime used to be the backbone and for the most of the time the form of Russian statehood. This overhaul had tremendous implications above all for the Russian foreign policy. Despite the hopes of some and fears of others ...