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...fair examination of the Court’s stance reveals it to be a modest one, which overturns no precedents, poses no threat to Roe, and will have minimal effects on abortion practices in the United States...
...efforts failed, and the glasnost that accompanied them set loose ethnic strife, rampant nationalism and separatist movements in the republics. In March 1990 Lithuania declared its independence, and Moscow was faced with the possible breakup of the Soviet Union. This threat changed the entire debate about the country's economic and political future, for Gorbachev was not prepared to endorse the dissolution of the Union...
...that the West could believe in, a Russia that shared the West's values and interests. But Yeltsin's ineptness, and a recalcitrant opposition, meant that in the end he could only deliver a weak nation to Vladimir Putin, who is fashioning once again a Russia that is a threat to the West...
...building and joined in its defense. The coup collapsed, and within a year the Soviet Union was no more. That freed more than a dozen countries to chart their own future, offered the hope of democracy to the 150 million people of Russia, and eliminated the Cold War threat of nuclear holocaust. As Yeltsin put it in his 1994 book Struggle for Russia, "I believe that history will record the twentieth century essentially ended Aug. 19 through...
...Communists to the point that he ruled over less than half the territory governed by Peter the Great. And that imperial contraction was achieved largely without bloodshed. Yeltsin's era, then, marked the end of the Cold War and the very idea of Moscow as a strategic threat to the West. But the Russia he created proved vulnerable to a reversion to authoritarian nationalism and a cooler relationship with the West. In the end, Yeltsin will be better remembered for that dramatic moment when he jumped on the tank to stop others from taking power through a coup rather than...