3
Shared Docs
2
Same-Page
3 / 3
Mentions
bjective and independent, Russian television and Russian media generally were no- table for their liveliness and diversity during the presidency of Boris Yeltsin. All did not sing out of the same hymnal, and most influential outlets reflected a variety of opinions about government policies, including the Kr
make this point Russian television aired a documentary meant to justify one of the more shameful events of the Soviet period, the 1968 Soviet-led Warsaw Pact intervention in Czechoslovakia. The invasion was undertaken to crush the reformist Prague Spring movement, whose leaders were moving increasingly
f state James Baker, worked hard to negotiate a peaceful dissolution of the Soviet empire, and it found reluctant partners in Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. In the following decade, U.S. policy was less wise and balanced, and Russia also provided a less judicious counterpart. No doubt, Russian power a
0s in dealing with Russia. In the decade after the Berlin Wall was breached, a EFTA00678426 weakened and disorganized Russia watched first as the Warsaw Pact disintegrated and then as the Soviet Union itself did. In both regions, especially Central Europe, the Kremlin might have responded with military
FH_Authoritarians_Report_2017.indd
objective and independent, Russian television and Russian media generally were no- table for their liveliness and diversity during the presidency of Boris Yeltsin. All did not sing out of the same hymnal, and most influential outlets reflected a variety of opinions about government policies, including the Kreml
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019250 →To make this point, Russian television aired a documentary meant to justify one of the more shameful events of the Soviet period, the 1968 Soviet-led Warsaw Pact intervention in Czechoslovakia. The invasion was undertaken to crush the reformist Prague Spring movement, whose leaders were moving increasingly in
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019265 →Entities connected to both Boris Yeltsin and Warsaw Pact

Barack Obama
PERSON
Bill Clinton
PERSON
Vladimir Putin
PERSON
Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Angela Merkel
PERSON
United States
LOCATIONKremlin
ORGANIZATION
European Parliament
ORGANIZATION
Boris Nikolic
PERSON
George W. Bush
PERSON
Middle East
LOCATION
Cynthia Nixon
PERSON
Xi Jinping
PERSON
Samantha Power
PERSONLeon Black
PERSON
Ronald Reagan
PERSON
Richard Nixon
PERSON
Adolf Hitler
PERSON
Yugoslavia
LOCATION
David Cameron
PERSON