Russia and CIS countries: the relations getting mature

... Among the positive factors is that the USSR disintegration unlike that of the French, Portuguese and even British empires was basically of a peaceful and non-violent nature. The main reason of it is the fact that it was Russia itself or, to be more precise, its elite which initiated the dismantling of the empire. It was completely in the logic of the society’s struggle against absolute power of the CPSU widely perceived as the Union center of power. On June 12, 1990 the Supreme Council of RSFSR ...