Аннотация
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The article is devoted to the problems of foreign policy orientation of the post-colonial world in the condi‑
tions of the bipolar system of international relations that had been created after the Second World War. The object
of the study is the foreign policy of Pakistan, which arose with the transfer of British power colonial India and its
division along religious lines into the Indian Union and Pakistan. As a subject, the author proposes a conflict in
the history of the formation of Pakistani-Soviet relations — the planned but failed visit of Pakistani Prime Minis‑
ter Liaquat Ali Khan to the Soviet Union in 1949. Against the background of the geopolitical interests of the USA
and the USSR, an analysis of this diplomatic story and its consequences is given. The work is based on the materi‑
als from the archival collections of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Foreign Policy Archive of the Russian Fed‑
eration, the National Archives of India, and published documents from Pakistan, the USA, and Great Britain. The
author uses general and specialized literature, it is characterized by a virtual lack of comprehensive research on the
topic of Liaquat Ali Khan’s visit to Moscow, its consequences for bilateral relations.
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