ABSTRACT
Right after the breakdown of the USSR, Russia had to develop its action in the field of peacekeeping, as a number of regional conflicts that broke out following the collapse of the bipolar world order did so in the post-Soviet space. This experience was determinant in shaping Russian peacekeeping practices and conferred quite a specific flavour on them, preceding and accompanying doctrinal and operational developments, and, to some extent, determining Russia's subsequent foreign policy in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
