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1991 disintegration of the USSR
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Russian Finance Minister: Higher military spending, lower oil prices led to collapse of USSR and can do the same to Russia
Yesterday, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov became the most senior Moscow official to say what many independent analysts…
Seeking to avoid another 1991, Kremlin takes a step making that more likely, Galkina says
Arguing that “there is no truer path to the collapse of a system than the hyper-centralization of authority,”…
Arms race, on top of sanctions, destroyed the USSR and will destroy Russia
Vladimir Putin’s plans to spend more money on rearmament is “a squandering of valuable natural and labor resources,…
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…
‘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,…
The Russian Federation’s disintegration won’t be like the USSR’s, Zhordan says
One of the most superficially compelling arguments of those who insist that the Russian Federation will never fall…
Analysts: Russia today far more dangerous than USSR was and West far less ready to counter it
Russia under Vladimir Putin is far more dangerous to the West than the Soviet Union ever was, two…
Post-Soviet Russian empire entering ‘second phase’ of disintegration, Lukyanenko says
By attacking Ukraine, Moscow has set in train the second phase of the disintegration of the post-Soviet Russian…
Kremlin’s losing battle: Next stage of disintegration of Soviet space
Violence in Kazakhstan and Armenia are the clearest sign yet that the post-Soviet space is entering into its…
Putin teaches geography: ‘All the former USSR is Russia’
The 150-minute film “The President” about Vladimir Putin is mostly boring and predictable in that it insists that…
Putin’s ‘Minimum Program’ is Restoration of USSR, Portnikov Says
Paul Goble, originally on Window on Eurasia Staunton, April 28 – Vladimir Putin’s moves against Ukraine are part…