after collapse of the soviet :union:, russia is faced with strategic vaccum in its foreign policy for a time. thus, we were witnessing a period of unstable, inactive and reactionary policy- making in russian foreign policy while the us was expanding its influence on the russian periphery. but in putin's administration, the russian foreign policy has evolved dramatically. putin put the infl...

The collapse of the Soviet Union and Chechen wars were for German Sadulaev, a writer origin, starting point broad reflection on identity nationality in post-Soviet era. This paper aims to scrutinise how issues related are addressed two works by author, collection short stories Ja – čečenec! [I Am Chechen, 2006] novel Šalinskij rejd [The Raid Shali, 2010]. Specific attention is paid role that na...

vacuum of power was one of the most important consequences of ussr collapse. regional and trans-regional countries have been pulled to south caucasus to extend their influence on this region. turkey and israel thought alliance with azerbaijan constitute east-west pivot. this cooperation threatens common interests of russia and iran. reaction of tehran and moscow creates north-south axis thought...

with the collapse of soviet :union:, central asian countries came into independence. the countries were neglected by russia during the first years after their formation. this encouraged other regional and trans-regional powers to interfere in the region and try to maximize their interests. shifting its foreign-policy process, russia kept its eyes on look-east policy and tried to prevent others ...

Executive Summary Until very recently, global military R&D had been in decline for some time, in terms of overall spending. The main reason was the end of the Cold War, which led to a virtual collapse in the former Soviet Union and substantial reductions in many other countries. This left the United States as the largest spender worldwide by a large margin. Increases in US spending in the late ...

This paper provides a unified analysis for the onset of the 1998 financial crisis and the strong economic recovery afterward in Russia and other former Soviet Union countries. Before the crisis a banking failure arose owing to the coexistence of a lemons credit market and high government borrowing. In a lemons credit market low credit risk firms switched from bank to nonbank finance, including ...

It is known that uranium industry in the former Soviet Union was a centralized state management. Information flows related to the issues of uranium mining was strictly controlled and is in a vertical subordination of the structures of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building of the USSR. After the USSR collapse, the information about uranium mining and processing were not available in Kyrgyzstan...

The end of the cold war created a strategic vacuum in the South China Sea. The collapse of the Soviet Union and its departure from Cam Ranh Bay; the closure of the United States' naval bases in the Philippines; and Vietnam's withdrawal from Cambodia diminished superpower influence in the region. These events also prompted several East Asian littoral governments to recalculate the strategic and ...

This PDF document preserves the page numbering of the printed version for accuracy of citation. When viewed with Acrobat Reader, the printed page numbers will not correspond with the electronic numbering. The Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies (BPS) is a leading center for graduate training on the Soviet Union and its successor states in the United States. Founded in 1983 as par...