Policy of federal Russia after the Cold War 1991-1999

Abstract

Russia faced serious challenges after the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, most notably the protection of national security and restore its status as a superpower, as well as that Russian society was suffering and the economic situation was too bad.Openness to the West, one of the choices adopted by the political elite of Russia's return to the pattern of international, and the hopes of the Russian held on the West, great, for it was the wishes of Western non-return of Russians thought authoritarian, too great, but the mutual concerns between them, still the greatest