How Russia Can Learn From Helsinki (Op-Ed)

... of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe passed almost unnoticed in Russia. Probably because the date falls during the most systemically unstable period... ... rationally) the moment when they needed to "hold onto their winnings." The West at that moment had just lived through an internal crisis, caused in part by foreign... ... setting an example and using persuasion. Fifteen years later this would be called "soft power," but at the time, it was packed into a third, humanitarian "basket"...