The Lost Twenty-Five Years

... freedoms of an individual of any nationality will be fully guaranteed.” This was Mikhail Gorbachev’s final attempt to stop the disintegration of a major country... ... ‘centralized’ or unipolar global system of governance simply failed. In 2005, Vladimir Putin described the disintegration of the Soviet Union as a major geopolitical... ... 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...