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3 february 2012
Will Russia Lose Georgia for Good?
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili finally got what he couldn’t get for several years: an official visit to the White House.
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19 january 2012
The End of the Post-Soviet Era
In an article published early this week, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced the end of the post-Soviet era and called for something new.
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30 december 2011
Russia-United States – minimizing the damage
Russia and USA have exhausted the positive agenda and the election-related political fervor in both countries will only emphasize areas of dissonance.
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29 december 2011
From the End of the Cold War into a New Era of Relations
Given the crisis in the U.S. and the European Union, the continued health of Asia and emerging markets, and Russia’s effort to look East, it is not unimaginable that twenty years hence the world will see the rise of Russia and the beginning of an Asia-Pacific century, potentially impacting Russia, ASEAN and their mutual relations.
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29 december 2011
Russia’s Nuclear Quest Comes Full Circle
Russia should rethink what it has inherited from the Soviet Union in nuclear matters, the role of nuclear weapons, and their relevance in the future. Furthermore, Russia should consider how it can best use to its own advantage the opportunities offered by the nuclear non-proliferation regime, and how this regime can be modified to meet the realities of the new century.
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29 december 2011
Hard Power and the Re-Industrialization of Russia
Since the time of Kievan Rus, Russia has been a key element of the world order through a multitude of circumstances. Therefore, in strengthening Russia we will strengthen the entire world order and render it more durable. In the overall scheme of things, this step will meet the real strategic interests of all responsible members of the international community, including the EU, the U.S., China and India.
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29 december 2011
What Diplomacy Does Russia Need in the 21st Century?
Russia has at least one tactical advantage over the other leading players. We are at the beginning of a new political cycle, and therefore have the advantage of medium-term planning – at least for six years ahead. So why shouldn’t Russia try to spearhead the looming intellectual breakthrough?
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12 december 2011
Destructive Soviet nostalgia
The collapse of the Soviet Union will remain in the center of public debate until it is replaced by a more meaningful subject.
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17 november 2011
Russia and Europe: Friends and interests
The interests of Russia and the European countries are so closely intertwined that they will not part ways even if their leaders fail to hit it off on the personal level.
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10 november 2011
Nord Stream and the future of Russian energy policy
Discussions about the global political shift of Russia from the West to the East are gradually acquiring a more practical dimension in the energy sphere.
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6 november 2011
Russia’s WTO entry as the end of the post-Soviet era
Russia may join the World Trade Organization this year, bringing to a close an 18 year accession process.
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7 october 2011
The secure Eastern Partnership
The summit of the Eastern Partnership that took place last week in Warsaw, Poland, turned into a bombastic event, complete with the ceremonial exchange of solemn words.
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24 september 2011
Where Fields of Attraction Overlap
For many centuries, rivalry among Turkey, Iran and Russia determined the geopolitics of the South Caucasus. In the 19th and 20th centuries other actors asserted their presence, too.
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24 september 2011
A Challenged Neighborhood
A mounting dispute has arisen in the past two years between Russia and Japan over a peace treaty that the two countries never signed after World War II.
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24 september 2011
Time for Financial Repression
(1)The Russian authorities have succeeded in easing the consequences of the economic and financial crisis of 2008-2009 for the population. At the same time, the crisis has exposed structural weaknesses of the Russian economy. The stabilization of economic growth and revenue in the first decade of the 21st cen- tury did not lay the groundwork for long-term development.
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5 july 2011
Russia and NATO: time to abandon illusions
Today is the moment for Russia and NATO to end seeing each other through the Cold War prism
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2 july 2011
Inertia and maneuvering in Russia’s foreign policy season
July is a quiet time in international politics, which gives us a chance to tally the results of the most recent season in Russian foreign policy.
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2 july 2011
Russia’s Asian Strategy
(2)For some Russians economic movement towards Asia spells deviation from the European way of development and closer relations with Europe.
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22 june 2011
The Labyrinths of Historical Policy
History will likely become an important, if not decisive, ideological element in reformatting the entire social and political sphere in Russia – something that is practically inevitable twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and because the related emotions and images are gradually disappearing from most peoples’ short-term memories.
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22 june 2011
Russia’s Accession to the WTO: External Implications
(1)Many Russians today, as they try to assess the role and place of their country in the international community, often proceed not from the global realities of the 21st century, but rather from nostalgia for that “once-mighty power, the Soviet Union,” a country “everyone feared and respected.”
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22 june 2011
What Does Russia Want?
The bottom strategic line could not be clearer: Russia is no longer a superpower, even if some in the Kremlin hanker after such standing. Consequently, Russia must recognize the nature of its decline (just like Britain) and better prepare for today’s challenges rather than re-fighting the old ones.
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22 june 2011
The Island of Russia
There is no greater joy for a Russian intellectual than to speculate about a decline of America. The problem is that the Russians still do not see any other worthy role for their country in the 21st century than the role of a superpower, as a state that realizes itself primarily through influence on global processes.
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22 june 2011
After the Tandem: Russian Foreign Policy Guidelines
(1)The new configuration of power after the 2011 and 2012 elections will not so much determine a radical change in Russian foreign policy (which is unlikely), but indicate whether or not Russia will become a new source of global turbulence. In the end it is the election, not the winner, that matters, i.e. its ability or inability to secure the legitimacy of the next president.
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22 june 2011
When the Dust Settles
The fallout from the turbulent events of the winter and spring of 2011 is gradually subsiding.
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3 june 2011
Time for reflection
The 2012 guessing game about the future of the so-called tandem of Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin is beginning to dominate the political debate in Russia.
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7 april 2011
History and uncertain future spark heated debate
Questions of history prompt heated debate and stir powerful emotions in Russia, as in all post-Communist countries.
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29 march 2011
Lucky Russia
Despite all the weaknesses of its development model, this country is viewed as a rising economy, with a prospect of becoming an economic power in the future.
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27 march 2011
In Search of the Dream Country
Many IT companies do not need Skolkovo’s Garden of Eden. Far more important to them are financial instruments (for example, lower taxes), mechanisms of interacting with other businesses, institutions and real investors and the selling of ideas. All this can be arranged in a long-distance mode.
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27 march 2011
Three Birds with One Stone?
The discussions about Russia’s possible membership in NATO, although not followed up on, once again have created an opportunity to probe positions and see certain changes in the opinions of a growing number of politicians, above all in Europe. These discussions have also prompted people to look at this issue from a more specific point of view: “If Russia cannot join NATO, then why?”
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27 march 2011
A Smaller Empire?
(1)Among the respondents favoring Chechen secession only a very small number believe that Chechnya should be entitled to independence by virtue of its right to self-determination. Remarkably, these respondents have Russia’s interests in mind (“It would be better for Russia”), not Chechnya’s.
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"Russia in Global Affairs" is now available at Facebook
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The analytical report "The U.S. - Russa Relations after the "Reset": Building a New Agenda. A View from Russia" - free download
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"Towards an Аlliance of Europe" - Analytical Report by the Russian Group of the Valdai International Discussion Club is avaliable online
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New version of Russia in Global Affairs website is now avaliable
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A revolutionary chaos of the new world
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Sergey Karaganov -
The Russian-Georgian war as a turning point
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The Dialectics of Rise and Decline
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Joseph Nye Jr -
Russia and Europe: Friends and interests
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“Coercion to Partnership” and the Flaws of an Unbalanced World
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Alexei Bogaturov
A revolutionary chaos of the new world
The world is getting more troublesome and increasingly challenging right before our eyes.
Will Russia Lose Georgia for Good?
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili finally got what he couldn’t get for several years: an official visit to the White House.
Will Russia Lose Georgia for Good?
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili finally got what he couldn’t get for several years: an official visit to the White House.
The End of the Post-Soviet Era
In an article published early this week, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced the end of the post-Soviet era and called for something new.
Russia-United States – minimizing the damage
Russia and USA have exhausted the positive agenda and the election-related political fervor in both countries will only emphasize areas of dissonance.
From the End of the Cold War into a New Era of Relations
Given the crisis in the U.S. and the European Union, the continued health of Asia and emerging markets, and Russia’s effort to look East, it is not unimaginable that twenty years hence the world will see the rise of Russia and the beginning of an Asia-Pacific century, potentially impacting Russia, ASEAN and their mutual relations.
Russia’s Nuclear Quest Comes Full Circle
Russia should rethink what it has inherited from the Soviet Union in nuclear matters, the role of nuclear weapons, and their relevance in the future. Furthermore, Russia should consider how it can best use to its own advantage the opportunities offered by the nuclear non-proliferation regime, and how this regime can be modified to meet the realities of the new century.
Hard Power and the Re-Industrialization of Russia
Since the time of Kievan Rus, Russia has been a key element of the world order through a multitude of circumstances. Therefore, in strengthening Russia we will strengthen the entire world order and render it more durable. In the overall scheme of things, this step will meet the real strategic interests of all responsible members of the international community, including the EU, the U.S., China and India.
What Diplomacy Does Russia Need in the 21st Century?
Russia has at least one tactical advantage over the other leading players. We are at the beginning of a new political cycle, and therefore have the advantage of medium-term planning – at least for six years ahead. So why shouldn’t Russia try to spearhead the looming intellectual breakthrough?
Destructive Soviet nostalgia
The collapse of the Soviet Union will remain in the center of public debate until it is replaced by a more meaningful subject.
Russia and Europe: Friends and interests
The interests of Russia and the European countries are so closely intertwined that they will not part ways even if their leaders fail to hit it off on the personal level.
Nord Stream and the future of Russian energy policy
Discussions about the global political shift of Russia from the West to the East are gradually acquiring a more practical dimension in the energy sphere.
Russia’s WTO entry as the end of the post-Soviet era
Russia may join the World Trade Organization this year, bringing to a close an 18 year accession process.
The secure Eastern Partnership
The summit of the Eastern Partnership that took place last week in Warsaw, Poland, turned into a bombastic event, complete with the ceremonial exchange of solemn words.
Where Fields of Attraction Overlap
For many centuries, rivalry among Turkey, Iran and Russia determined the geopolitics of the South Caucasus. In the 19th and 20th centuries other actors asserted their presence, too.
A Challenged Neighborhood
A mounting dispute has arisen in the past two years between Russia and Japan over a peace treaty that the two countries never signed after World War II.
Time for Financial Repression (1)
The Russian authorities have succeeded in easing the consequences of the economic and financial crisis of 2008-2009 for the population. At the same time, the crisis has exposed structural weaknesses of the Russian economy. The stabilization of economic growth and revenue in the first decade of the 21st cen- tury did not lay the groundwork for long-term development.
Russia and NATO: time to abandon illusions
Today is the moment for Russia and NATO to end seeing each other through the Cold War prism
Inertia and maneuvering in Russia’s foreign policy season
July is a quiet time in international politics, which gives us a chance to tally the results of the most recent season in Russian foreign policy.
Russia’s Asian Strategy (2)
For some Russians economic movement towards Asia spells deviation from the European way of development and closer relations with Europe.
The Labyrinths of Historical Policy
History will likely become an important, if not decisive, ideological element in reformatting the entire social and political sphere in Russia – something that is practically inevitable twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and because the related emotions and images are gradually disappearing from most peoples’ short-term memories.
Russia’s Accession to the WTO: External Implications (1)
Many Russians today, as they try to assess the role and place of their country in the international community, often proceed not from the global realities of the 21st century, but rather from nostalgia for that “once-mighty power, the Soviet Union,” a country “everyone feared and respected.”
What Does Russia Want?
The bottom strategic line could not be clearer: Russia is no longer a superpower, even if some in the Kremlin hanker after such standing. Consequently, Russia must recognize the nature of its decline (just like Britain) and better prepare for today’s challenges rather than re-fighting the old ones.
The Island of Russia
There is no greater joy for a Russian intellectual than to speculate about a decline of America. The problem is that the Russians still do not see any other worthy role for their country in the 21st century than the role of a superpower, as a state that realizes itself primarily through influence on global processes.
After the Tandem: Russian Foreign Policy Guidelines (1)
The new configuration of power after the 2011 and 2012 elections will not so much determine a radical change in Russian foreign policy (which is unlikely), but indicate whether or not Russia will become a new source of global turbulence. In the end it is the election, not the winner, that matters, i.e. its ability or inability to secure the legitimacy of the next president.
When the Dust Settles
The fallout from the turbulent events of the winter and spring of 2011 is gradually subsiding.
Time for reflection
The 2012 guessing game about the future of the so-called tandem of Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin is beginning to dominate the political debate in Russia.
History and uncertain future spark heated debate
Questions of history prompt heated debate and stir powerful emotions in Russia, as in all post-Communist countries.
Lucky Russia
Despite all the weaknesses of its development model, this country is viewed as a rising economy, with a prospect of becoming an economic power in the future.
In Search of the Dream Country
Many IT companies do not need Skolkovo’s Garden of Eden. Far more important to them are financial instruments (for example, lower taxes), mechanisms of interacting with other businesses, institutions and real investors and the selling of ideas. All this can be arranged in a long-distance mode.
Three Birds with One Stone?
The discussions about Russia’s possible membership in NATO, although not followed up on, once again have created an opportunity to probe positions and see certain changes in the opinions of a growing number of politicians, above all in Europe. These discussions have also prompted people to look at this issue from a more specific point of view: “If Russia cannot join NATO, then why?”
A Smaller Empire? (1)
Among the respondents favoring Chechen secession only a very small number believe that Chechnya should be entitled to independence by virtue of its right to self-determination. Remarkably, these respondents have Russia’s interests in mind (“It would be better for Russia”), not Chechnya’s.
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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