Russia and the Prompt Global Strike Plan
Prompt Global Strike is a concept the U.S. military has been developing since the start of the decade. Its goal is to give the U.S. military the capability to attack…
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The Political and Legal Parameters of Russian Decisionmaking on Abkhazia and South Ossetia
Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia on February 17, 2008, was in some ways an anticlimactic event. It was widely expected, as were the immediate reactions: recognition by the United…
Will the Kremlin Revive the Russian Idea?
During the first week of September 2005, Russian President Vladimir Putin made two foreign trips, each aimed at advancing Russia’s energy policy interests. The North European gas pipeline project, unveiled…
Res Publica in Russia: Things and Publics in Current Municipal Reform
The Year 2000 Millennium threat, linked to a potential computer breakdown, was never a big concern for Russian policymakers. By contrast, when Anatoly Chubais first formulated the problem of 2003…
START I Replacement: The End of Cold War Disarmament
Negotiations on a new strategic arms control treaty, proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in July 2006, are likely to be a challenging but fascinating exercise. The new treaty, which…
‘Unrecognized States’ in Russia’s Domestic and Foreign Policy
Predictably, the recognition of Kosovo’s independence by the United States and most members of the European Union was followed by pronounced appeals for recognition from three of the four “unrecognized…
Russia-NIS Relations Beyond the Color Revolutions: Are the Shifts Durable?
During a short period of nine months, the joyful euphoria of many observers about the Orange Revolution in Ukraine gave way to shock and mixed emotion about the Tulip Revolution…
Russia’s Left Turn
Former Yukos chairman Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s letter warning of the inevitable “left turn” in Russian politics that would follow an emerging left turn in Russian society was one of the topics…
The Houses That Khrushchev and Brezhnev Built: Citadels of Support or Incubators of Political Protest?
One of the biggest movie hits of the Soviet era, The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath (1975), still shown around New Year’s Day on Russia’s major television channels…
Russia’s New Euro-Atlanticism
Russian-U.S. relations in the post-Cold War era have had their ups and downs, but the trend has generally been toward a reduction in spheres of cooperation, already limited just to…