START I Replacement: The End of Cold War Disarmament
Negotiations on a new strategic arms control treaty, proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in July 2006, are likely to be a challenging but fascinating exercise. The new treaty, which…
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‘Unrecognized States’ in Russia’s Domestic and Foreign Policy
Predictably, the recognition of Kosovo’s independence by the United States and most members of the European Union was followed by pronounced appeals for recognition from three of the four “unrecognized…
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…
Official Patriotism in Russia: Its Essence and Implications
After a brief burst of optimism following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia fell into a funk. The economy failed to take off, and by the end of the…
EU-Russian Border Security: Stereotypes and Realities
Russia has land borders with five European Union states: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. The aggregate length of these borders is more than 2,250 kilometers, roughly one-fifth of all…