The Eve of Electoral Threshold: New Challenges in Russian Politics

The ongoing cycle of Russia's national elections–parliamentary elections scheduled for December 19, 1999, and presidential elections, which should be held July 9, 2000 according to the constitution- represent a threshold…

The Security of Russia’s Nuclear Arsenal: The Human Factor

Assertions by the Russian military that all of their nuclear weapons are secure against theft and that nuclear units within the military are somehow insulated from the problems plaguing the Russian military…

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,…

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