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It is clearly stated in the passage that in the last decade of the 20th century, ----.
During the 1990s, the country that was viewed by
American leaders and many others in the West as the
most important challenge for a transition to democracy
was Russia. The Clinton administration emphasized
that one of its high priorities in foreign policy was the
success of the movement to democracy and a market
economy in the states of the former Soviet Union, in
particular Russia. A senior official asserted that “helping
the Russian people to build a free society and market
economy is the greatest strategic challenge of our
time,” and that “Russia was the single most important
foreign policy priority” of the Clinton administration.
Russia was by far the largest of the former republics of
the Soviet Union in both population and land area. In
addition, its geographical location gave it influence on
issues in several regions in which the US was
interested, and it had greater strategic military capability
than any other country except the US. On a deeper
level, Russia represented what remained of the former
geopolitical and ideological rival of the US. If the state
that had been the core of the superpower which was
considered to be the main adversary of the US and of
democracy could, within a relatively short time, be
changed into an ideological soul mate of the US, the
symbolic implications would be profound.