Policy Memos | Аналитика 119

Pension Reform In Russia: From the Politics of Implementation to the Politics of Lawmaking?

Under President Boris Yeltsin, the politics of economic transformation was a politics of implementation, not of lawmaking. The decisions of bureaucrats, whether motivated by corruption or public spirit, counted for…

Chechnya: 9/11, the Moscow Hostage Crisis, and Opportunity for Political Settlement

Having enlisted Putin’s support in the global war on terrorism, the White House has not publicly protested the continuing zachistki (cleansing raids) and other systematic abuses of Chechen civilians by the…

From Afghanistan To Ingushetia

Recently, I have been receiving many calls from journalists who want me to discuss what lessons, if any, the United States can learn from the Soviet experience in Afghanistan. It…

The Russia-NATO Relationship: Is It Worth Another Try?

Russia and NATO are discussing how to implement the decision taken at the North Atlantic Council (NAC) ministerial meeting on December 6, 2001 to develop new mechanisms in order to…

International Assistance and Human Rights in Post-Soviet Ukraine

A decade into its independent, post-Soviet existence, words or phrases like laggard, diminished expectations or basket case typically capture the headline story about Ukraine. In the humanrights policy area, the…

Toward a U.S. Policy on Chechnya

Co-author: Scott Lindsay U.S. policy on Chechnya must bridge three objectives: cooperating with Russia on counterterrorism, stopping abuses in the conduct of the war in Chechnya, and finding a political…

From Crisis to Transition: The State of Russian Science Based on Focus Groups with Nuclear Physicists

Conventional wisdom holds that Russian science is in a state of crisis. Russian scientists themselves claim that “it would be more accurate to describe its current condition as comatose.” The…

Ukraine on the Eve of Parliamentary Elections: Internal trends and Security Implications

Co-author: Rostyslav Pavlenko Ukraine’s upcoming parliamentary elections in March 2002 will determine not only the new composition of the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada). They will also define the correlation of…

President Putin and His Generals: Bureaucratic Control and War-Fighting Culture

Since the attacks on the United States on September 11, Russian president Vladimir Putin has moved Russia decisively toward the West, staking out a prominent place in the U.S.-led antiterrorist…

How Russians Think about Human Rights: Recent Survey Data

In 2001, human rights norms appear to be more widespread in Europe than they were 26 years ago at the dawn of the Helsinki process and more widely shared globally…

The 2002 Parliamentary Elections in Ukraine: A Prelude to Change or Just Routine Business

On January 1, 2002, Ukraine officially enters a campaign to elect the country’s new legislature, the Verkhovna Rada. The elections that will take place on March 31 are widely viewed…

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…

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