1991 disintegration of the USSR Archives - Page 2 of 2

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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…

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Arguing that “there is no truer path to the collapse of a system than the hyper-centralization of authority,”…

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Vladimir Putin’s plans to spend more money on rearmament is “a squandering of valuable natural and labor resources,…

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Three specific and even unique characteristics of the Russian Empire in the past have not disappeared in the…

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In yet another manifestation of what Guillermo O’Donnell described as “the powerlessness of the all-powerful,” Lilia Shevtsova argues,…

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One of the most superficially compelling arguments of those who insist that the Russian Federation will never fall…

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Russia under Vladimir Putin is far more dangerous to the West than the Soviet Union ever was, two…

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By attacking Ukraine, Moscow has set in train the second phase of the disintegration of the post-Soviet Russian…

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Violence in Kazakhstan and Armenia are the clearest sign yet that the post-Soviet space is entering into its…

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The 150-minute film “The President” about Vladimir Putin is mostly boring and predictable in that it insists that…

Paul Goble, originally on Window on Eurasia Staunton, April 28 – Vladimir Putin’s moves against Ukraine are part…