By: David Fenton and Andrew StobeUpdated: May 02, 2020 05:15:17As we approach the 50th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union, some of us are still wondering about the reasons behind that momentous event.
But as we know, the answer is simple: Russia was a very successful country.
Inflation, trade and foreign trade were all booming, and the Soviet economy was rapidly expanding.
But as the Cold War began to recede, and as economic conditions in the West worsened, economic freedom, and even freedom of speech were threatened, Russia began to become more repressive.
In the 1990s, as the world saw the collapse and subsequent fall of communism, the government launched a crackdown on political dissent, especially among the intelligentsia.
In Russia, many of the restrictions on freedom of expression and association were enacted under the guise of fighting terrorism.
The most significant restrictions were the “anti-corruption laws,” which were introduced in 1995 and implemented under the presidency of Boris Yeltsin.
The laws targeted individuals and entities linked to the oligarchs who were at the center of the Russian government’s financial scandal.
The laws were passed amid widespread discontent in the Russian population, which felt that they had been treated unfairly and unfairly treated by the authorities.
The law was designed to punish people and organizations that did not follow the government’s economic priorities.
The law also included an array of other laws, which aimed to crack down on people who did not toe the party line.
These laws included a new law banning any demonstrations of more than 10 people, and a new one prohibiting the printing of any foreign currency.
The authorities were also cracking down on the internet, banning social media, and other forms of online communication.
The following year, after the collapse, Russia’s economy and the country’s reputation as a global financial hub were severely damaged.
The crackdown on dissent and the new crackdown on civil society and the internet in general were met with widespread opposition from the general population.
As a result, in 1999 the Russian Federation’s Constitutional Court overturned the “Anti-Corruption Act,” which had been passed in 1995.
The Constitutional Court ruled that the new laws were unconstitutional and that they violated the constitution.
The Constitutional Court also ruled that other laws were also unconstitutional, including laws banning “unlawful and improper” association with the opposition.
The decision effectively ended the rule of the Yeltsins and his allies, who had dominated Russia’s politics and media since 1991.
The ruling of the Constitutional Court was followed by a crackdown against independent journalists.
In October 2000, the Kremlin issued a decree banning all forms of independent journalism.
The crackdown lasted for several years, but in 2006 the Constitutional Chamber of Russia ruled that any form of media that did any criticism of the government was illegal and must be censored.
The move was seen by many as a response to the criticism of President Boris Yelksen, who was also a member of the United Russia party, which was then in power.
By the end of that decade, the authorities had moved on to crackdown on the political opposition, which they perceived as having ties to the United States and Western intelligence services.
Many of those arrested were members of the opposition, and many of those involved in the movement had ties to foreign intelligence services, including the U.S. and the European Union.
The government began using its considerable power to suppress the movement and to silence those who dared to criticize it.
In 2008, the Supreme Court upheld a ban on opposition political parties and banned the organization of political rallies and demonstrations, a move that was seen as a crackdown by many of its critics.
The Kremlin had been increasingly relying on state-funded media outlets, and some commentators and commentators in the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates have described the crackdown as a “totalitarian” step.
In 2010, the Russian authorities arrested journalist Alexander Novak, and in 2013 they jailed him for publishing an opinion piece in a newspaper, in which he criticized the government.
The persecution of political dissidents was a direct response to a perceived threat from the West.
According to the World Socialist Web Site, in 2010, “the Russian government said it was worried that the European Economic Community, the United Nations and other international organizations were planning to impose sanctions on Russia over its alleged interference in the Ukraine conflict, and it urged other countries to take the same action.
Russian President Vladimir Putin responded by announcing that the West had “taken a big step forward” in their efforts to destabilize Russia.”
In other words, the crackdown on the opposition was seen in the eyes of many in Russia as a reaction to a threat from foreign powers.
This was the case even though Russia was the main victim of the Western sanctions in 2014.
The Western response, however, did not go down well with the Kremlin.
The Kremlin launched a campaign to discredit the Western media by targeting and prosecuting journalists who had criticized the ruling government, even though the government had previously denied its allegations against the media. In