The Lost Twenty-Five Years

... the disintegration of a major country. Nine months later, following a referendum on Ukraine’s independence on December 1st, the Soviet Union officially ceased to... ... resolved and have – to be clear – become more acute since 2014. For the West – the US and its allies – the collapse of the Soviet Union was a manifestly... ... South Caucusus republics, nor even Ukraine could have caused as big a country as the USSR to disappear so quickly. Only the will of the Russian establishment – the...