Title: Near Abroad | Encyclopedia.com
Headings: Near Abroad
Near Abroad
NEAR ABROAD
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Content: Wherever possible Yeltsin sought to maximize Russian influence over the other former Soviet republics. Vladimir Putin has continued to walk the tightrope between assertiveness and integration, taking into account the nature of the new world order of the twenty-first century. See also: chernomyrdin, viktor stepanovich; kozyrev, andrei vladimirovich; primakov, yevgeny maximovich; yeltsin, boris nikolayevich
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Kolsto, Pal. ( 1995). Russians in the Former Soviet Republics. Bloomington: