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Russian Policy Towards Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic States in the Putin Era

Russian policy towards Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic States depends primarily on domestic factors. Western influence is important in terms of setting well-known limits for what Russia should not do,…

Human Rights Violations in Chechnya: Implications for Western Assistance to Russia

Complaints of human rights violations by Russian authorities in Chechnya are now rampant. In early March 2000, Human Rights Watch representative Peter Bouckaert testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee…

The Prospects for ABM Treaty Modification

Since August 1999, the US-Russian START III/ABM Treaty talks have not shown evidence of any progress. At these talks, Moscow consistently refused discussing modification of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty…

The Finlandization of Russia? The Kremlin’s Geopolitical and Geo-economic Choices

Since the late 1990s, relations between Russia and the West have gradually but steadily deteriorated. Disagreements over the eastward expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), wars in Bosnia…

Explaining the International Community’s Response to the War in Chechnya

In between his night at the opera with Tony Blair and his tea with Queen Elizabeth, Vladimir Putin refused to see Mary Robinson, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,…

Russia, Kosovo, and Security Cooperation

Increasingly, discussion of policy options to salvage the disastrous US policy on Kosovo has turned to the prospect of an intervention mission with ground forces. The primary American objection to…

Critical Political Mass: Russia’s Emerging Party System

It has become common wisdom that Russia has nothing we can call a party system. No fewer than 141 "electoral associations" registered with the Ministry of Justice by December 1998,…

Russian Nuclear Forces in Ten Years with and without START II

In recent months the United States and Russia have made an attempt to revive the arms control dialogue. But instead of bringing a solution to the problems that hold up nuclear disarmament,…

The Bright Side of Russia’s Regionalization

Regionalization is a basic characteristic of post-Communist Russia–a contradictory process that both poses challenges to and provides for a federative state. Russia's regionalization does have negative consequences: further disintegration of the single economic,…

Revenge of the Administrative System: The Primakov-Luzhkov Silver Lining

At first glance, the probable political victory of the Primakov-Luzhkov duo in the wake of the failure of liberal reforms in Russia looks like a regressive return to the bureaucratic…

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