Russia’s Changing Identity: In Search of a Role in the 21st Century
... such organizations). Russia was not proposed for founding membership in the UN, unlike Ukraine and Belarus, and so on. Eventually, however, the Russian elites’ unhappiness... ... Soviet Union emerged as the single most important factor leading to the demise of the USSR. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, ethnic Russians have constituted about... ... security. Russia’s Muslim population is indigenous, unlike Muslim communities in Western Europe. Kazan, Astrakhan, western Siberia, and Crimea used to be Muslim khanates that...