Time Machine: Going Back Thirty Years

Fyodor A. Lukyanov
2021 Russia in Global Affairs  
The fall of 2021, just several months before another anniversary of the Soviet union's disappearance, was filled with growing concern about stability in eastern europe. Current developments around relations between Russia and ukraine, or rather between Russia and the united States in connection with ukraine, may become a serious milestone in european history after the end of the Cold War. at stake is the basic principle on which politics in europe has been built since the unification of
more » ... It makes sense to take this event as a starting point, because united Germany's decision to join NaTo marked the beginning of practical steps to dismantle the european security system. The postulate that every country has a right to choose membership in military-political alliances (formally, to choose ways to ensure its own security, but actually it
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