Foreign Policy

The Collapse That Created Today’s Russia

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The Conversation

How Putin turned Russia’s post‑Soviet ‘national humiliation’ into military aggression in Ukraine

As the 21st century dawned, a newly elected Vladmir Putin was making friends on the world stage. He smiled for photo ops at G8 meetings, and was the first foreign leader to call George W. Bush after ...
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150,000 dead - the war that followed Soviet collapse

This documentary traces the collapse of stability in Tajikistan as the Soviet Union unraveled. Long-standing regional patronage networks fractured under economic strain and political reform. Poverty ...
CNN

A key nuclear weapons treaty is ending. It’s a sign of Russia’s eroding superpower status

Since the collapse of the old Soviet Union, Russia has cut a substantially diminished figure on the international stage. The breakup, back in 1991, of what US President Ronald Reagan once dubbed an ...