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1991 disintegration of the USSR

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  2017/08/23 - 12:48 • Analysis & Opinion, History, Russia

  Seeking to avoid another 1991, Kremlin takes a step making that more...

  Arguing that “there is no truer path to the collapse of a system than the hyper-centralization of authority,” Moscow blogger Elena Galkina says that the Kremlin has now taken a step that shows its denizens think that “if they tighten...

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  2017/08/11 - 10:22 • Analysis & Opinion, Russia

  Arms race, on top of sanctions, destroyed the USSR and will destroy...

  Vladimir Putin’s plans to spend more money on rearmament is “a squandering of valuable natural and labor resources, Mikhail Bobryshev says. But more than it, “an arms race led to the collapse of the USSR and the same thing will...

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  2017/08/02 - 23:42 • Analysis & Opinion, History, Russia

  Inozemtsev: Russian Empire’s special features haven’t disappeared in Russia today

  Three specific and even unique characteristics of the Russian Empire in the past have not disappeared in the Russian Federation of today but instead continue to drive both the foreign and domestic policies of the Kremlin, according to...

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  2017/05/05 - 11:34 • Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia

  ‘Fearing another 1991, Kremlin is making that outcome more likely,’ Shevtsova says

  In yet another manifestation of what Guillermo O’Donnell described as “the powerlessness of the all-powerful,” Lilia Shevtsova argues, Vladimir Putin and his entourage are making a repetition of the events of 1991 ever more likely...

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