The Kremlin’s comeback

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The Kremlin’s comeback

Thirty years after the Soviet Union’s humiliating defeat in Afghanistan, Moscow wants back in. (Washington Post, 12.10.2018)

Russia has been cultivating ties with the Taliban to increase its influence in Afghanistan three decades after Moscow’s humiliating defeat there helped hasten the Soviet Union’s collapse.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2018/10/12/feature/behind-the-scenes-russia-regains-a-complicated-status-afghanistan-power-broker/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.abd5bff38841