Word: approaching
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...based on copious infusions of Western cash to shore up his deeply unpopular regime in exchange for Russian compliance with the U.S. agenda on the international stage and lip-service to Western ideas on how the Russian economy should be reformed. But the systematic international humiliation that Yeltsin?s approach brought for the erstwhile superpower reached a breaking point in the Kosovo crisis. After the U.S. bombed a Russian ally over Moscow?s objections, Washington enlisted Yeltsin?s support to broker a peace deal that saved NATO from having to go to ground war and then immediately violated the terms...
...beliefs. The statement was light on policy and heavy on theory. "Russia will not soon, if ever, become a second copy of, say, the U.S. or England, where liberal values have deep historical traditions," Putin wrote. Russians, he argued, are comfortable with a strong state, a more collective approach to society rather than Western individualism, and considerable government intervention in the economy...