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Young, Educated, Urban -and Anti-American: Recent Survey Data from Russia

Despite claims by the media that anti-American sentiment is growing rapidly in Russia, recent survey data show most russians are neutral toward Americans and, by implication, the United States. Those…

Strong Public Support for Military Reform in Russia

The Russian public strongly supports reform of the Russian military. In focus groups in summer 2002 and in a large-scale survey in January 2003, we found deep and widespread interest and anxiety…

Up for Grabs: Russia’s Political Trajectory and Stalin’s Legacy

Russia’s post-Soviet political trajectory has long been understood as a U.S. national security concern. Recent survey data suggest this trajectory is still very much up for grabs. Republicans and Democrats should be…

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…

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…

How Russians Think about Chechnya

Human rights activists have documented mass graves, disappearances and torture, as well as the indiscriminate use of force by Russian federal forces against civilians in the current war in Chechnya.…

The Disconnect in How Russians Think about Human Rights and Chechnya: A Consequence of Media Manipulation

Despite considerable evidence collected by Russian and Western organizations of human rights abuses in Chechnya and a roll back in civil liberties in other spheres of life in Russia, survey data suggest…

The Development of Self-Employment in Russia

Despite the important economic, social, and political roles the self-employed can potentially play in Russia's market transition process, little is known about the extent of self-employment, the composition of the…

Russia’s Population Crisis: The Migration Dimension

Since the Soviet collapse, Russia has experienced a number of unfavorable demographic developments: • Falling fertility. The crude birth rate (births per 1000 population) declined from 12.1 in 1991 to…

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