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Tag: Yeltsin

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The Kremlin released word on Monday of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin’s death, apparently of heart failure. Yeltsin leaves behind a complex legacy. He was instrumental in Russia’s transformation from Soviet state to democracy, but, as Mikhail Gorbachev noted, Yeltsin also made some “serious errors.”

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Needed: A New Direction for U.S.-Russian Relations

Katrina Vanden Heuvel —

We need a new policy toward Russia—one that is neither triumphalist, Cold War-like, or ignorant of the fact that the pro-Western liberal groups in Russia are in fact supported by a tiny fraction of the Russian electorate.