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Central Weakness and Provincial Autonomy: The Process of Devolution in Russia

The most recent round of financial and political crises in Russia serve to underscore the growing power shift between the federal government in Moscow and the 89 units that comprise…

Domestic Politics and Russia’s Caspian Policy

The known volume of Caspian oil and gas reserves is immense, and new discoveries are reported regularly. With deposits of oil alone totaling perhaps 200 billion tons, the Caspian stands…

Could Norway Trigger a Nuclear War? Notes on the Russian Command and Control System

Next January, Norway is planning to launch a research rocket similar to the one that caused a false alarm in the Russian strategic command and control system in 1995. An…

Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Uncertainty in Post-Communist Russia

The most recent round of financial and political crises in Russia serve to underscore the growing power shift between the federal government in Moscow and the 89 units that comprise…

Russia’s International Integration and Caspian Sea Oil

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's international integration has been complicated by both its economic weakness and its unpredictable foreign policy. In 1996-97, as a result of the…

Current Russian Views on US-Russian Security Relations and Military Reform

I recently returned from a research trip to Moscow and wanted to pass on some impressions. While there, I conducted interviews on two different issues: military reform and political party…

Primakov in Context: The Myths and Realities of Russia’s New Prime Minister

A casual reader of Western media in Europe and the US, in particular, might be excused for believing that the potential for a new US-Russian Cold War had increased significantly…

Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, and Baltic Security

As a small Russian exclave some 300 kilometers away from the bulk of the Russian Federation, Kaliningrad Oblast is rarely mentioned in discussions of NATO expansion. (Kaliningrad is the Russian…

Foreign Funding of Social Movements in Russia

Over the course of the last several years, the United States government and private US foundations have allocated funding to support the development of a women's movement in Russia. These…

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…

«Невидимая рука» внешних врагов: использование «теорий заговора» путинским режимом

Использование теорий заговора различными политическими акторами является обычной практикой во многих странах и регионах мира. Объяснение тех или иных событий зловещими планами внутренних либо внешних врагов может выполнять различные функции:…

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Russia, Ukraine, and US Policy

Although Ukraine was briefly independent at the end of World War I and was occupied by the Nazis during World War II, those were the only gaps in the roughly…

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