Has the Russian Navy Turned a Corner?: Recent Trends in Russian Shipbuilding and Naval Deployments

In recent years, Russia’s foreign policy and behavior have become increasingly self-assertive and the rhetoric of its leaders increasingly hostile. Accordingly, some in the West have viewed with trepidation recent…

The Russian Black Sea Fleet After the Georgian War

Russian ships left their bases in Sevastopol and Novorossisk and sailed for the Georgian coast on August 9, the day after hostilities began in the region. A total of 13…

An End to Russian Military Bases in Georgia?: The Implications of Past Military Withdrawals

The Russian military presence in the South Caucasus continues to remain a challenge for the newly independent states of the region. Russia’s policy towards the South Caucasus has undergone significant…

The South Caucasus Corridor after the Russian-Georgian War

The “five-day war” between Russia and Georgia in August 2008 has many dimensions. For those trying to discern its strategic implications, perhaps the most important is its impact on alternative…

Russia’s New ‘State Corporations’: Locomotives of Modernization or Covert Privatizations Schemes?

At the end of 2007, just a few months before the end of his presidency, Vladimir Putin exercised Russia’s largest one-time public investment. To this end, he signed statutes creating…

Russian-Ukrainian Relations After the Georgian War

There is little doubt that the August 2008 crisis in Georgia affected relations between Russia and Ukraine. At the time, a number of analysts voiced serious concerns that Ukraine would…

The Nanotechnology Revolutions: Looking Beyond the Hype

In April 2007, then Russian president Vladimir Putin extolled nanotechnology research as the key to establishing Russia’s competitive advantage in the high-tech world economy and the next round of the…

Circassian World: Responses to New Challenges

Every tourist who comes to Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, visits a famous gift shop called “Adyga Una” (“The Circassian House”). The owner of this gift shop is a well-known Circassian businessman…

Overcounting Russia’s Muslims: Implications for Security and Society

Russia’s top Muslim officials, Russian prime minister and former president Vladimir Putin, and Russian and American scholars all typically put the number of Muslim believers in Russia at around 15…

Competing Designs for Caspian Energy Highways: Russia and the EU Face Reality Checks

The profound economic disaster that began unfolding in the summer of 2008 has inevitably distorted the energy-related political perspectives developed in the United States, the European Union, and Russia during an…

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