Because down from the north came a redoubtable double thrust of real Russian power.

Dalny soon became a center of Russian military power in the Far East.

Russian economic power will inevitably turn into political power.

Over the past five years, economic pressure, not military dominance or internal subversion, has become the most important source of Russian regional power.

Those concerns seem not to be shared by the Russian powers that be.

"They are a testimony to the crisis of Russian power."

He managed to consolidate Russian power by brokering peace with the local regional rulers.

His focus is Russian power and its reëstablishment.

In the crucible of the 1996 election campaign, the shape of Russian power today was finally molded.

They automatically become targets for the expansion of Russian power.