Word: broker
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...Western ideas on how the Russian economy should be reformed. But the systematic international humiliation that Yeltsin?s approach brought for the erstwhile superpower reached a breaking point in the Kosovo crisis. After the U.S. bombed a Russian ally over Moscow?s objections, Washington enlisted Yeltsin?s support to broker a peace deal that saved NATO from having to go to ground war and then immediately violated the terms of that deal by taking unilateral control of the province and sidelining the Russians...