The
peaceful dissolution of the USSR according to the agreement between
Mikhail Gorbachew and Ronald Reagan in 1988 in Reykjavik brought a new
dimension of a global geopolitics in which up to 2008 Russia, as a legal
successor state of the USSR, was playing an inferior role in global
politics when an American Neocon concept of Pax Americana became the
fundamental framework in international relations. [ 2,994 more words ]
Russian President Boris Yeltsin, foreground left, addresses the crowd
standing atop of a tank in front of the Russian Government building,
also known as White House