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The Limited Reach of Russia’s Party System: Under-Institutionalization in the Provinces

With the 1999 elections to the State Duma completed and a new president recently elected, a Russian party system, although fragile, is perceptible. Party factions are active and somewhat enduring…

Supporting Democratic Institutions Rather than ‘democrats’ in Russia

In the period leading up to Vladimir Putin's decisive victory in the first round of Russia's presidential election, individual personalities and not democratic institutions once more became the focus of…

Will Russia Go for a Military Victory in Chechnya?

Six full weeks after the December 1999 parliamentary elections, Russian troops managed to raise their flags over the familiar ruins of the presidential palace in Grozny. Victory has been proclaimed…

Russian Policy Towards Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic States in the Putin Era

Russian policy towards Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic States depends primarily on domestic factors. Western influence is important in terms of setting well-known limits for what Russia should not do,…

Human Rights Violations in Chechnya: Implications for Western Assistance to Russia

Complaints of human rights violations by Russian authorities in Chechnya are now rampant. In early March 2000, Human Rights Watch representative Peter Bouckaert testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee…

The Prospects for ABM Treaty Modification

Since August 1999, the US-Russian START III/ABM Treaty talks have not shown evidence of any progress. At these talks, Moscow consistently refused discussing modification of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty…

The Finlandization of Russia? The Kremlin’s Geopolitical and Geo-economic Choices

Since the late 1990s, relations between Russia and the West have gradually but steadily deteriorated. Disagreements over the eastward expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), wars in Bosnia…

Explaining the International Community’s Response to the War in Chechnya

In between his night at the opera with Tony Blair and his tea with Queen Elizabeth, Vladimir Putin refused to see Mary Robinson, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,…

A History of the ABM Treaty in Russia

In the current debate about the future of the ABM treaty, Russia's official position is that the treaty is "the cornerstone of strategic stability" and therefore an attempt to modify…

New Challenges to US-Russian Relations

The end of the "honeymoon" period between the United States and Russia has left US-Russian relations in a state of volatile ambiguity. The two countries need to quickly work out…

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