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Europe Without Visas: Does Russia Have a Chance

When Vladimir Putin proposed visa-free travel between Russia and the European Union in August 2002, his initiative seemed to be sailing against the current wave of thinking. The forthcoming EU enlargement not…

Russia’s Security Agenda vis-a-vis Transatlantic Developments after the War in Iraq

The sharp disagreements among Western countries over U.S. actions in Iraq are a serious test for Moscow for several reasons. First, although disagreements in the West have occurred before and indeed deepened…

What Went Wrong? Regional Electoral Politics and Impediments to State Centralization in Russia 2003-2004

In the fall of 2004, Russia’s national executive launched a major reform that affects the development of center-region relations in the country. The pivotal component of the reform is a move to…

Who is at the Gate?: The Symbolic Battle of Stalingrad in Contemporary Russia

During the first years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian president Boris Yeltsin’s administration paid little or no attention to the old symbols of Russian national pride. Liberal ideology, as…

Strong Men, Weak State: Power Ministry Officials and the Federal Districts

Vladimir Putin's KGB past, strong state rhetoric, and specific policy decisions (Chechnya, the attacks on media oligarchs Boris Berezovskii and Vladimir Gusinskii, etc.) have heightened fears of the return to…

From the CIS to the SES: A New Integrationist Game in Post-Soviet Space

On September 19, 2003, the presidents of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine signed an agreement in Yalta on “The Concept of a Single Economic Space” (SES). The idea behind this agreement was…

The United States and Russia Today: A Practical Partnership

U.S.-Russian relations today can be characterized best as pragmatic. But this pragmatism is a very specific one. The partnership between Russia and the United States is driven by expediency rather than principle…

The View of Russian Electoral Reforms from Russia’s Ethnic Republics

President Putin’s proposal to eliminate gubernatorial elections throughout Russia caught the leaders of Russia’s ethnic republics by surprise. Although it was widely known that such ideas had been circulating in the…

The U.S. War on Terrorism: How Do Russian Muslims Respond?

In response to the September 11 terror attacks on New York City and Washington D.C., Russia’s Muslim leaders went to great lengths to make a legitimate and valid distinction between…

Suffocation by Embrace: The Putin-Bush Alliance and the Cultural Threat to Western Democracy

In the wake of the heinous terror strikes in the United States, President Vladimir Putin firmly embraced the idea of a counterterrorist alliance led by the United States/NATO and Russia.…

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