If you say that someone or something has been ~, you mean that they have become active again after a period of being inactive.
Russia was being ~ as a great power.
V-PASSIVE: be V-ed as n
If you say that someone or something has been ~, you mean that they have become active again after a period of being inactive.
Russia was being ~ as a great power.
V-PASSIVE: be V-ed as n
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012