Cold War II (The Red Sun Rises Again)

Beginnings
===1990s Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, each of the fifteen Republics of the Soviet Union became independent states. Russia, whose territory was defined by the administrative boundaries of the defunct Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, emerged as the sole legal successor to the Soviet Union. Russia inherited the USSR's UN Security Council permanent membership seat as well as most of its military nuclear capacity. The Cold War definitively ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. Relations between Russia and the West warmed further during the 1990s