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Its revolution in 1789 initiated a long period of profound instability, featuring two empires, three monarchies, and five republics.
It is a NATO member, bordering the three Caucasus republics that have NATO Individual Partnership Action Programs.
Of course, the idea of Serbia as a victim ran counter to the views of the other republics.
Although women’s soccer in Africa is as old as the republics themselves (the first teams appeared in West Africa in early 1960), soccer on the continent is still a man’s sport.
Despite having been cajoled by Putin with lavish financial support and cheap gas, Ukraine is unlikely to join a Russia-led EurAsEC, which is more a means of anchoring former Soviet republics to Russia’s sphere of influence than it is a vehicle to promote trade.
This isn’t democracy; it is Russian roulette for republics.
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were all Soviet republics, for which opposition to Russia was an essential feature of the rebuilding process.
The hard-fought independence of the former Soviet republics must not be tacitly traded away in acquiescence to Russia’s desire for regional hegemony.
In this context, the Central Asian republics are already hedging against Putin’s irredentist ambitions, by pursuing closer ties with the EU and China.
With China’s growing influence in the post-Soviet space enabling the Central Asian republics to embrace a so-called “multi-vector” foreign policy, a shift in the balance of power will benefit Russia’s former client-states by increasing their leverage for negotiation within the newly established entity.
Many former Soviet Republics with EU aspirations have become victims of this loss of nerve, as have the Western Balkan countries.
Whereas the Central Asian republics’ rulers wished to keep the Soviet structure, it was Yeltsin and the Russian government which wanted to put an end to the Soviet Union and create an independent Russian Federation.
Moreover, since there are several Central Asian republics between Tajikistan and Russia, the Kremlin was really implying that all of Central Asia was still Russian territory.
In other republics through agreements on border guards, training, and military facilities, Moscow has kept control of security-related affairs and so made a mockery of their independence.
The definition of Russia’s true frontiers, and its relations with the former Soviet republics and the Federation’s own non-Russian regions, is obviously a complex task.
The political and military elements which lament the demise of the Soviet state feed on the resources devoted to extend Russian influence in the non-Russian republics.
In the former republics, the politicins who favor strong ties to Russia are also those who favor a return to old Soviet ways and thus the forces behind stronger intra-CIS ties are not those of liberals interested in European Union-type arrangements, but lobbies who loath markets and pluralism and wish to restore planning, conformity, indeed all the old Soviet ways.
Thus Russia’s future is intimately tied to its policies in the non-Russian republics.
Through its control of natural gas pipelines, Gazprom is by far Russia’s chief tool for maintaining influence in the former Soviet former republics of Central Asia, the Caucasus, Belarus, Ukraine, and even in the Baltic states (now EU members).
Russia, for its part, has invaded two former Soviet republics in the last decade, and its military spending as a share of GDP has been increasing almost exponentially.
He observed that in republics, "Your representative owes you, not only his industry, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serves you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion."
In addition, the itineraries used by the export convoys are no longer limited to the infamous “golden route” through Pakistan and Iran, but have multiplied, employing exit points in former Soviet Republics such as Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.
As the Soviet Union steadily disintegrated, with virtually all of its 15 republics straining at the leash, Yeltsin gained the leadership of the largest – the Russian Federation – which placed him in a tactical alliance with independence campaigners in Ukraine, the Baltic states, and Georgia.
Moreover, presidents and former presidents were jailed or interrogated for corruption in Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil, as well as in Central America's small republics.
Soon, the new Congress of People's Deputies, as well as the newly-formed parliaments of the Russian Federation and other USSR republics became political battlefields, unleashing processes that lead to the collapse of the Communist Party and the USSR.
National Fronts were gaining strength in Ukraine, the Caucasian republics, the Baltics.
That commonsense alone prevented catastrophe, civil war, and conflicts among the former Soviet republics.
It was not until 1992 that the Russian Federation, along with 13 other former Soviet republics, became a member.
From Washington to Los Angeles, many Americans worry that NATO is an alliance without a purpose, has become weak, and has miserably failed in Bosnia (even though NATO never was committed to keep the peace among or within the former Yugoslav republics).
Each group's self-interest in sustaining the flow of petrodollars serves to unite much of Nigeria's patchwork of emirates, kingdoms, village republics, and autonomous clans.
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