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Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Applying Lessons from Soviet Disintegration to the Russian Federation

The economic meltdown of 1998 has renewed fears that Russia is doomed to disintegrate like the star-crossed union from which it sprang in 1991. The history of the Soviet collapse…

Critical Political Mass: Russia’s Emerging Party System

It has become common wisdom that Russia has nothing we can call a party system. No fewer than 141 "electoral associations" registered with the Ministry of Justice by December 1998,…

Russia’s Fiscal Veto on CIS Integration

When the words "Russia" and "Near Abroad" emerge in the same sentence, they usually conjure up visions of imperialism and political subversion. In this brief, I argue that Russia has…

The Regionalization of Autocracy in Russia

Despite the clear progress in Russian democratization at the federal level, the trend appears to be in the opposite direction at the regional level, a movement spearheaded by the Federation's…

Moldova’s New President: Chalk One Up for Parliamentary Systems

Moldova’s parliament on March 16 finally elected a president, Supreme Magistrate Council Chair and Judge Nicolae Timofti. This outcome illustrates the promise of non-presidential systems to generate compromise even…

Assessing the Implications of the Russian Elections

(Event) Assessing the Implications of the Russian Elections Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, March 7, 2012 Moderator: Blair Ruble, Kennan Institute. Panelists: Ariel Cohen, Heritage Foundation, Stanislav Belkovsky, National Strategy…

PONARS Eurasia Event / Book Launch – “Russia in the 2000s: A Stereoscopic View”

New publication: Россия "двухтысячных": Стереоскопический взгляд/Коллективная монография под общей ред Генри Хейла и Ивана Куриллы, Планета, 2011 ("Russia in the 2000s: A Stereoscopic View, edited by Henry Hale and…

4 Myths of Russia’s Party System

Russia’s party system developed in a decidedly lopsided way during the 2000s. As with all things lopsided, it runs a serious risk of instability, which could occur over the next…

The Fruits and Frustrations of Democracy: Moldova’s Divided Parliament

Brief perspectives from Henry E. Hale and Ludmila Coada: Moldova’s November 2010 parliamentary election once again seems to have produced a hung parliament. While the Alliance for European…

Ukraine: Tipping Back to the Post-Soviet Norm?

Henry E. Hale The George Washington University On Friday, Ukraine’s Constitutional Court annulled the 2004 constitutional reform that had effectively created a balance of influence over executive power between…

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