Fyodor Lukyanov is editor in chief of the journal Russia in Global Affairs.
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10 february 2007
On the Eve of Change
Russia is entering a momentous election season. In December, Russian voters will elect a new parliament, while in March 2008 they will vote for a new president.
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7 february 2007
Where to Focus If You Are Expecting Change
Interest in next year's presidential election is gradually eclipsing all other current events in Russia. The main pursuit of analysts and commentators has become peering across this political Rubicon into the dense fog that enshrouds the opposite bank...
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28 december 2006
Time for a New Foreign Policy Look
It is difficult to recall a single year over the past decade-and-a-half in which Russian foreign policy has generated results as contradictory as in 2006. It's almost as if there were two different Russias acting on the international stage, the first as perceived from the Russian side and the second as seen by the West...
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18 december 2006
Russia Is Not Prepared to Restore the Empire
When the Baltic countries entered NATO and the European Union a couple of years ago, many thought it was the end of the centuries-old "red line." Euro-Atlantic organizations had crossed into the former Russian and Soviet empires...
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29 november 2006
Russia Is Not Prepared to Restore the Empire
When the Baltic countries entered NATO and the European Union a couple of years ago, many thought it was the end of the centuries-old "red line." Euro-Atlantic organizations had crossed into the former Russian and Soviet empires.
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1 november 2006
The Deficit of Values Behind a Crisis in Goals
It is 17 years since the fall of the Berlin wall and 15 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Current events in the former "socialist world" show that the scale of difficulties involved in the transition was seriously underestimated...
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12 october 2006
From Nationalism to Nation
On the eve of the 15th anniversary of the breakup of the Soviet Union, it has become particularly obvious that Russia has not only failed to overcome the consequences of that dramatic event, but has even failed to rethink them.
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4 october 2006
Saakashvili Is Playing a High-Stakes Game
There are two features of the current crisis between Moscow and Tbilisi that differentiate it from the many difficulties between the two in the past.
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12 september 2006
Old Habits Die Hard
Everyone agrees that Sept. 11, 2001, changed the world. Much has been said and written about the impact the terrorist attacks had on the United States, how Europe responded and the Middle East was transformed, and about the effect the attacks had on the institutions of international relations in general.
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11 july 2006
The Russian Season
Russia’s G8 presidency, which will be crowned by the July summit in St. Petersburg, has become the leitmotif of Russia’s foreign policy this year.
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8 may 2006
Unlearned Lessons of the Past
The arrival of spring was marked by several anniversaries in Russia and the world.
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7 february 2006
After the Empire
This year will mark 15 years since the breakup of the Soviet Union, a dramatic event whose aftermath will determine the course of world history for a long time.
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21 november 2005
Passions Over Sovereignty
Of the many subjects of political debate in Russia in 2005, the main emphasis has been on national sovereignty.
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30 july 2005
Debates About Values
Thirty years ago, on August 1, 1975, the leaders of 35 countries gathered in Helsinki to sign the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
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18 may 2005
In Search of New Identity
Russia is marking two anniversaries this spring that are of fundamental importance for its development.
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8 february 2005
The Spiral of Russian History
The year 2004 has proven to be Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most difficult year since he took office in 2000. Apart from an upsurge in terrorism, which culminated in the horrible terrorist act in Beslan, Putin faced a decrease in economic growth rates, the declining position of Moscow in the post-Soviet space, and a marked deterioration in the West’s attitude toward Moscow.
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25 november 2004
Victorious Ukraine
The preliminary outcome of the battle shows that Ukraine is a complicated and subtle political system that does not deserve a simplified approach.
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9 november 2004
Russia Goes to War
Following the recent hostage drama in Beslan, where hundreds of schoolchildren were brutally killed by terrorists, we must ask the question: “What kind of country has Russia become?”
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9 november 2004
Imperial Overload
The Kremlin has earmarked enormous resources to ensure Viktor Yanukovich’s victory in Ukraine’s presidential election, in order to prove that Russia still has influence in the post-Soviet republic, and not because it would actually benefit from that win.
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9 september 2004
The Eternal Value of Autocracy
Differences in the interpretation of the Beslan hostage drama by Russia and the West could well drive a wedge between the two sides, reducing relations to their lowest point since the demise of the Soviet empire.
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16 august 2004
No Rose Is Without a Thorn
There already was a Georgian president who failed to live up to his own popularity and subsequently drove his country into the abyss.
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10 august 2004
Gone with the Wind of Change
Fifteen years ago, in the early summer of 1989, the entire Soviet nation was glued to the television, not believing its eyes. At that time, the country held its first Congress of People’s Deputies of the Soviet Union, and it was then that public politics first arose in Russia.
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Convergence the Other Way Round
Everything in the world is changing. The fantastically fast – by historical standards – redistribution of forces is especially evident.
Putin and Washington: Is Conflict Inevitable?
Vladimir Putin, who was inaugurated as president of Russia on May 7, has instructed the Foreign Ministry to ensure compliance with the New START Treaty.
On the Eve of Change
Russia is entering a momentous election season. In December, Russian voters will elect a new parliament, while in March 2008 they will vote for a new president.
Where to Focus If You Are Expecting Change
Interest in next year's presidential election is gradually eclipsing all other current events in Russia. The main pursuit of analysts and commentators has become peering across this political Rubicon into the dense fog that enshrouds the opposite bank...
Time for a New Foreign Policy Look
It is difficult to recall a single year over the past decade-and-a-half in which Russian foreign policy has generated results as contradictory as in 2006. It's almost as if there were two different Russias acting on the international stage, the first as perceived from the Russian side and the second as seen by the West...
Russia Is Not Prepared to Restore the Empire
When the Baltic countries entered NATO and the European Union a couple of years ago, many thought it was the end of the centuries-old "red line." Euro-Atlantic organizations had crossed into the former Russian and Soviet empires...
Russia Is Not Prepared to Restore the Empire
When the Baltic countries entered NATO and the European Union a couple of years ago, many thought it was the end of the centuries-old "red line." Euro-Atlantic organizations had crossed into the former Russian and Soviet empires.
The Deficit of Values Behind a Crisis in Goals
It is 17 years since the fall of the Berlin wall and 15 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Current events in the former "socialist world" show that the scale of difficulties involved in the transition was seriously underestimated...
From Nationalism to Nation
On the eve of the 15th anniversary of the breakup of the Soviet Union, it has become particularly obvious that Russia has not only failed to overcome the consequences of that dramatic event, but has even failed to rethink them.
Saakashvili Is Playing a High-Stakes Game
There are two features of the current crisis between Moscow and Tbilisi that differentiate it from the many difficulties between the two in the past.
Old Habits Die Hard
Everyone agrees that Sept. 11, 2001, changed the world. Much has been said and written about the impact the terrorist attacks had on the United States, how Europe responded and the Middle East was transformed, and about the effect the attacks had on the institutions of international relations in general.
The Russian Season
Russia’s G8 presidency, which will be crowned by the July summit in St. Petersburg, has become the leitmotif of Russia’s foreign policy this year.
Unlearned Lessons of the Past
The arrival of spring was marked by several anniversaries in Russia and the world.
After the Empire
This year will mark 15 years since the breakup of the Soviet Union, a dramatic event whose aftermath will determine the course of world history for a long time.
Passions Over Sovereignty
Of the many subjects of political debate in Russia in 2005, the main emphasis has been on national sovereignty.
Debates About Values
Thirty years ago, on August 1, 1975, the leaders of 35 countries gathered in Helsinki to sign the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
In Search of New Identity
Russia is marking two anniversaries this spring that are of fundamental importance for its development.
The Spiral of Russian History
The year 2004 has proven to be Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most difficult year since he took office in 2000. Apart from an upsurge in terrorism, which culminated in the horrible terrorist act in Beslan, Putin faced a decrease in economic growth rates, the declining position of Moscow in the post-Soviet space, and a marked deterioration in the West’s attitude toward Moscow.
Victorious Ukraine
The preliminary outcome of the battle shows that Ukraine is a complicated and subtle political system that does not deserve a simplified approach.
Russia Goes to War
Following the recent hostage drama in Beslan, where hundreds of schoolchildren were brutally killed by terrorists, we must ask the question: “What kind of country has Russia become?”
Imperial Overload
The Kremlin has earmarked enormous resources to ensure Viktor Yanukovich’s victory in Ukraine’s presidential election, in order to prove that Russia still has influence in the post-Soviet republic, and not because it would actually benefit from that win.
The Eternal Value of Autocracy
Differences in the interpretation of the Beslan hostage drama by Russia and the West could well drive a wedge between the two sides, reducing relations to their lowest point since the demise of the Soviet empire.
No Rose Is Without a Thorn
There already was a Georgian president who failed to live up to his own popularity and subsequently drove his country into the abyss.
Gone with the Wind of Change
Fifteen years ago, in the early summer of 1989, the entire Soviet nation was glued to the television, not believing its eyes. At that time, the country held its first Congress of People’s Deputies of the Soviet Union, and it was then that public politics first arose in Russia.
Russia Is Not Prepared to Restore the Empire
When the Baltic countries entered NATO and the European Union a couple of years ago, many thought it was the end of the centuries-old "red line." Euro-Atlantic organizations had crossed into the former Russian and Soviet empires.
Russia at the Turn of the Century: Hopes and Reality
In September 2004, the Russian city of Novgorod hosted an international conference entitled Russia at the Turn of the Century: Hopes and Reality. Its organizers were the RIA Novosti news agency, the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Russia in Global Affairs, and The Moscow Times.
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