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First Cycle: from the 1690s to the 1850s

 
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Alexander II (1855—81)
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Cold War (1946—91)
Brezhnev era (1964—82)
 

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Mikhail Gorbachev (1985—91)
Boris Yeltsin (199199)
Vladimir Putin (20002008)
Dmitry Medvedev (2008)
 
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