Long before Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, the stage was set for Russia’s current confrontation with the west by the failure to achieve a transformed and inclusive peace order after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Guardian: Russia’s 1989 plea for a new world order was rejected, and so Putinism was born
(FILES) This file photo taken on August 19, 1991 shows Russian President Boris Yeltsin (L) standing on top of an armoured vehicle parked in front of the Russian Federation building in Moscow as supporters hold a Russian federation flag. Russia marks on August 19-22, 2011, the 25th anniversary of the abortive 1991 coup against then Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Tanks rolled through Moscow towards the Russian White House, where Boris Yeltsin, leader of the Soviet-era Russian republic at the time, gathered his supporters after denouncing the coup from the roof of a tank, which resulted later in the collapse of the Soviet empire.
