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Moscow’s Painful Adjustment to the Post-Soviet Space

... standards of education, science, culture, and, most importantly, in terms of the mentality of the political and business elites in power. It took at least another generation for this entity to begin to fade into the past. Therefore, the real collapse of the USSR is only taking place today, literally in front of our eyes, and the states that have emerged in the post-Soviet space have yet to go through all the challenges, risks, and pains of imperial disintegration. The superficial nature of the Soviet disintegration at the end of 1991 becomes especially evident when compared with somewhat similar events in modern ...

01.04.2022

analytics

Only Now Do We See the Real Disintegration of the USSR

... disintegrated. For many years, we lived in an environment full of Soviet elements, in which the statehood of newly independent republics was not taken very seriously, even by their own political leaders. Only now do we see the real disintegration of the USSR. It is happening in front of our eyes. The Russian leadership seems not to be ready to pay a high price in order to maintain its influence in the post-Soviet space anymore. Take Belarus: it seemed natural that Russia should use the moment of Lukashenko’s weakness to impose some form of deeper integration and drag him into the Russian orbit. However, if I look at current discussions between Lukashenko ...

20.04.2021

interview

Poll conducted

In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?

U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements	33 (31%)
U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity	30 (28%)
U.S. wants to dissolve Russia	24 (22%)
U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China	21 (19%)