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Russia, Then and Now
22 October 2026

Russia, Then and Now

American Diplomat

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It's 1987. Soviet repression is relaxing with Glasnost and Perestroika. So how did we get where we are today? What was the inflection point? Amb. Lynne Tracy saw it all: the beginning, middle and end of the arc of change in Russia's recent decades. What's been lost, and why does it matter?