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RIAC-MGIMO IMI Roundtable “The Evolution of Post-Soviet States in the Context of the Transformation of the World Order”

... consequences of the dissolution of the Soviet Union; the future of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and its capacity to adapt to the realities of a changing world order; the nation-building trajectories pursued by the former Soviet republics—Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, the countries of the South Caucasus and Central Asia—as well as a range of related issues. The expert discussion featured: Elena Karpinskaya, RIAC Director of Programs; Irina Bolgova, Deputy Director of the Institute for International ...

08.04.2026

Russia’s Changing Identity: In Search of a Role in the 21st Century

... the centrality of the Communist system, Stalin did not allow a Russian republican communist party organization (others, from Ukraine to Uzbekistan, had 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 about the terms of their relationship with the rest of the 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 80 percent of the country’s population, which gives them a sense of security. Russia’s Muslim population is indigenous, unlike Muslim communities in Western Europe....

31.07.2019

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