Mr Putin sees his historic role as rebuilding the ties (and influence) that were broken by the Soviet collapse.
Yet if Africa had had too much big-power attention for its own good in the 1980s, after the Soviet collapse, arguably, it had too little.
In search of hard currency for its oil and weapons, Russia had already established new ties with more prosperous South Korea just before the Soviet collapse.
In the very early days after the Soviet collapse, Russia and some of its neighbours swarmed with Western advisers, disseminating not only the basics of market economics but also the mechanics of multi-party democracy.
Russia now has 87 billionaires, more than any nation except the U.S. Sixteen years after the Soviet collapse, Russia has handily overtaken Germany, which held the number two spot for six years but hasn't produced many new billion-dollar fortunes of late.
As early as 1979, he publicly predicted that the Soviet Union would collapse from internal stresses.
This sort of division, that turns the European economy into a tale of two worlds, reflects a deep underlying ideology, a vestige of the collapse Soviet model, which presumes that bureaucrats rather than markets know best how resources should be allocated.
He was a career Soviet analyst who failed to predict the Soviet Union's collapse.
More than half the population of Chukotka and Magadan have fled the permafrost since the Soviet Union's collapse.
California's aerospace and defence industries had suffered greatly after the Soviet Union's collapse and the end of the cold war.
With the collapse of Soviet and Eastern block economies in the 1980s and 1990s, it was generally thought that SOEs had seen their day.
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In Russia's vast and poor agrarian regions, which have largely failed to recover from the collapse of Soviet collective farms, unemployment and alcoholism are rampant.
Georgia has to handle several hundred thousand volatile and resentful people, from within Georgia and from outside, displaced in the strife-ridden aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse.
This question is neither unique, nor new to LIPA. In fact, it has been part of the core of every MBA program curriculum, especially after the collapse of Soviet Union, and the rise of modern corporations.
Georgia has experienced much political turmoil since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The collapse of the Soviet Union left 3, 400 nuclear warheads in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus.
Karachay-Cherkessia gained republic status in the early 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
France only rejoined the military wing in 1993, after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Many new bands appeared in Ukraine in the early 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The collapse of the Soviet Union deprived Russia of key ports and cut the size of its fleet.
Charlotte Hobson is the author of Black Earth City, which describes life in Russia during the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Most such cases have involved material filched from ill-guarded sites in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Mr Beinart traces America's invasion of Iraq to the hubris that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989.
Framework Convention on Climate Change coincided with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, nuclear competition between Washington and Moscow has ceased to be a central concern.
The period being studied runs from the early 1950s to the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.
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Ms Rice made her reputation at roughly the same time, during the two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
It was the highest level since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the highest in the world together with Saudi Arabia.
Relations became deeply strained in the 1960s, and did not improve until the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.
Russia holds over 200, 000 items of "trophy art", an issue which as dogged German-Russian relations since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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