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Moscow’s Painful Adjustment to the Post-Soviet Space

... For a long time, no foreign actor had any fundamental security claims to the southern contours of the borders of the former USSR, but Moscow's intention to keep its military and political hegemony in the west and the southwest of the post-Soviet space was perceived with more unambiguity since at least the mid-1990s. On top of that, over these 30 years Russia ... ... world prices for Russian exports. Let's not forget that in the first years after the Soviet collapse, the economies of most CIS countries remained essentially Soviet, and therefore energy- and resource-intensive, which predetermined the high level of ...

01.04.2022

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Only Now Do We See the Real Disintegration of the USSR

... part of your postgraduate studies at the Institute for U.S. and Canada Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences, an opportunity not many students in the USSR would have had... ... logic was: we, the Russian elite, deconstructed the Soviet empire and this was our decision. We set those countries free and allowed them to go their own way, and they should... ... 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...

20.04.2021

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