The political earthquake that shattered the Soviet Union had its epicentre in Moscow, but the after shocks are still being felt farther afield even in far flung regions of the world. So high up on the Richer Scale was the blast that world would never again be the same. Undoubtedly from our vantage point at the twilight of the new millennium, the world particularly in the aftermath of the dissolution of the USSR has undergone a fundamental transformation. ...
