Abstract
The end of the year 1991 signaled an unprecedented change in the history of Russia. The collapse of the USSR was not only the collapse of one régime for the establishment of another one. The beginning of the 1990s was indeed the end of an era for Russia, as well as for the whole international community. In fact, the collapse of USSR was the collapse of an entire set of ideas, conceptions, perceptions and thinking. Passing through an accelerated transition from communism to the road of the market, Russia, and its population were facing the most important event of the end of the XXth century. Insofar as the making of foreign policy is directly concerned, this period -from Gorbachev's first reforms known under the expression ?Perestroika' to Yeltsin's presidency- is undoubtedly worthy of attention from anyone studying this process of creation or building of foreign policy.
