High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Republic of Vanuatu and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics established official diplomatic relations on June 30, 1986 - three months to the day before Vanuatu established diplomatic relations with the United States. The USSR broke up and Russia emerged as its successor state in 1991. Today, Russia's ambassador to Vanuatu is Aleksandr Blokhin (who is also an ambassador for to Australia, and Russia's other non-resident embassies in Canberra such as Fiji, Nauru, and Tonga. Vanuatu, which became independent from France and the United Kingdom in 1980, was led by Prime Minister Father Walter Lini, founder of the doctrine of Melanesian socialism, from 1980 to 1991. Lini's foreign policy was one of non-alignment, manifested by Vanuatu joining the Non-Aligned Movement in 1983. His government was the only one in Oceania at the time which refused to align with the Western bloc during the dying stages of the Cold War. Lini sought to maintain cordial, though not particularly close, relations with the Soviet Union.

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