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Medvedev’s Oil: The Burdens of Great Wealth and the Potential for Coping with Them

Observers have long recognized that Russia’s oil wealth handed Vladimir Putin’s regime numerous political and economic advantages, along with a range of potential troubles. President Dmitry Medvedev inherits the same…

The Geopolitics of Resurgent Russia: How Medvedev’s Russia Sees the World

Under President Dmitri Medvedev, Russia has begun the complicated process of redefining its role in international affairs. While this process is grounded in the achievements of the pre-Medvedev era, Russia…

A Curse or a Blessing?: What to Expect from a Typical Developing Resource-Abundant State

It might seem obvious that a country endowed with larger quantities of natural resources has an advantage and, other conditions being similar, will grow faster than resource-poor countries. This is…

Does Russia Want the West to Succeed in Afghanistan?

As in the United States, Russia’s policy on Afghanistan has recently undergone an evolution of sorts, prompting speculation about Moscow’s “true” motivations for engagement. Two prominent assessments of Russia’s agenda…

Russia-NIS Relations Beyond the Color Revolutions: Are the Shifts Durable?

During a short period of nine months, the joyful euphoria of many observers about the Orange Revolution in Ukraine gave way to shock and mixed emotion about the Tulip Revolution…

Russia’s Left Turn

Former Yukos chairman Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s letter warning of the inevitable “left turn” in Russian politics that would follow an emerging left turn in Russian society was one of the topics…

The Houses That Khrushchev and Brezhnev Built: Citadels of Support or Incubators of Political Protest?

One of the biggest movie hits of the Soviet era, The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath (1975), still shown around New Year’s Day on Russia’s major television channels…

Russia’s New Euro-Atlanticism

Russian-U.S. relations in the post-Cold War era have had their ups and downs, but the trend has generally been toward a reduction in spheres of cooperation, already limited just to…

The Coming Revolutions in the North Caucasus

A specter is haunting Eurasia: the specter of revolution. Ironically, this time Washington stands accused of promoting subversion while Moscow emerges as the headquarters of counterrevolution and conservative order. Serbia,…

From Managed Democracy to Sovereign Democracy: Putin’s Regime Evolution in 2005

The first year of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s second term has been disastrous. A series of crises has occurred, from the assassination of Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov in Grozny in…

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