Further inquiry into the agreements with Tartarsan demonstrates the flexibility the Yeltsin regime is willing to employ in dealing with possible powder-keg situations. ... But in typical Yeltsin contradictory manner, the war in Chechnya has demonstrated the worst of the Yeltsin regime. ... The Chechnyan campaign was characterized by Yeltsin employing Soviet-era coercive measures. ... Lilia Shevtsova considers the Chechnyan war a byproduct of the Yeltsin regime's reliance on personal politics. ... The Road to a Market Economy At the heart of the difficulties plaguing the Russian ...

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The Fall of Communism in Russia The Reasons for the fall of Socialism/Communism and the Troubles of Starting the New Democratic System in the Russian Federation "Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky." Boris Yeltsin (b. 1931), Russian politician, pr...

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With their new president Boris Yeltsin promising better times, citizens were hopeful that things would get better. ... In 1993, Yeltsin went even farther and disbanded the Russian parliament and every other elected representative body in the country, including many municipal and regional councils (Anders, 1995). ... In December of 1993, citizens of Russia elected a new parliament and approved a new constitution done by Yeltsin. ...

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The appointment of Boris Yeltsin in 1991 as the first president of the Russian Federation only brought little change, as he turned Russia into a chaotic state with widespread corruption and rebellious provinces (Shevtsova, 2007: 32). When Yeltsin stepped down as president in 2000, he named Vladimir Putin as his successor. Political commentators and scientist alike thought that in contrast to Yeltsin, Putin would finally lead Russia onto the path to democracy (Kozina, 2009). ...

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The possibility of the end of the Cold War for so long seemed out of the question. Because of the definition of the Soviet ideology which stated that war with the capitalist nations of the world was inevitable, peace was paradoxical. The Americans in a sense fostered the Soviet position by executing a policy of containment against the Soviet Union in order to keep it in check and from spreading any further than it had already spread. However, as the world enters 1992, the superpower Soviet Union lies in utter destruction and chaos due to the collapse of its political infrastructure. This colla...

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INTRODUCTION Despite all the hardships and obstacles, Russia remains a very important and attractive country for business due to its large size and great demand, not only for new, qualitative equipment, but also for very simple and elementary devices. During the last decade the country has greatl...

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