They said that they were keeping the alternate history idea rather than making it a possible future setting. So far, the background/timeline is like the 2nd/2.2 edition, i.e. the Cold War escalates after the Russian coup succeeds and the Russian hardliners take control.
There wasn't much more information than that but it seems Free League are looking at some measure of compatibility with earlier editions. Whether they can achieve that is still an open question for them as things like the play test and so on might require them to change the history/timeline.
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