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Regional Elections under Putin and Prospects for Russian Electoral Democracy

Elections are a cornerstone of Russian democracy and crucial to our understanding of its fragile and transforming nature. A dozen years of elections is, perhaps, the major achievement of the late-Soviet and…

Does Russia Need to Strengthen the Ruble? Accumulation of Foreign Exchange Reserves and Economic

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), as well as some academic economists, suggest that Russia should run down its foreign exchange reserves (FER) and appreciate (strengthen) the ruble. These reserves grew quickly after…

Wanted: A New U.S. Policy on Russia

Recent Russian parliamentary elections did much to expose the myth of “managed democracy” in that country. U.S. policymakers, however, had numerous (and bloody) reasons to be worried about Russia’s political course long…

From the Courtyard to the Federation: What holds communities together?

We tend to look at social, ethnic, religious, or psychological affinities when we evaluate levels of cohesion in a given community. However, classical thought was more preoccupied with more durable and tangible…

Russian Private Equity: An Opportunity for which the Time Has Not Yet Come

Private equity is a relatively common investment discipline in many Western countries and is an asset class that, over the years, has become an important component of many institutional portfolios.…

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…

The Yukos Affair: Terminating the Implicit Contract

On July 2, 2003, Russian law enforcement arrested billionaire Platon Lebedev, chairman of the Board of Directors of MENATEP, the financial center of the oil giant YUKOS. A few days earlier the…

Time to Get Off the Putin Path

In the last few years, Russia has become an increasingly hostile place for those who support democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. Political and social activists inside and outside Russia…

The State in the New Russia (1992-2004): From Collapse to Gradual Revival?

The very notion of the state implies that public authorities hold monopolies on three functions: Legitimate use of violence Provision of revenues by collecting taxes Control of monetary emission All…

The Selective Use of State Capacity in Russia’s Economy: Property Disputes and Enterprise Takeovers After 2000

Throughout the 1990s, the role of the Russian state in governing the private economy was negligible. Private organizations of various kinds, such as organized criminal groups, private security agencies, and…

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