“And because of that, when Putin came to power in 1999, he made it his objective, which he spelled out quite openly, to re-establish Russia as a counterweight and a counterbalance to the U.S., and to create a multipolar world where the U.S. “From the Russian point of view and from the point of view of Putin, it became what he called a unipolar world, where there was just one country, the U.S., making all the decisions basically for everybody else,” added Ioffe. would say, a kind of stick in the eye of the U.S.,” continues Ioffe. “It created a lot of hardship for many of these republics that became independent states, and then globally, it kind of removed Russia for a long time from the global stage as a power broker and as a counterbalance, as some would say, to the U.S., or as proponent allies of the U.S. Thirty years on, how should we assess the impact of the disappearance of the Soviet Union? “I think that the global impact first was the independence of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union and the economic collapse that it triggered in part because the system was already bankrupt,” says Ioffe. This week, Altamar hosts Peter Schechter and Muni Jensen are joined by Julia Ioffe, former Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker and Foreign Policy, to help us understand where Russia goes in the next decade.īorn in Moscow, a graduate of Princeton University, and a participant in Columbia Journalism School’s Knight Foundation Case Studies Initiative, Ioffe won a Fulbright Scholarship to return to Russia in 2009, where she worked as a foreign correspondent. President Vladimir Putin has placed Russia at the center of the global stage as one of the West’s principal antagonists. This month marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union.
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