Russia and Eurasia
October 2004
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Title: Reengaging Russia: A New Agenda
Author: Michael McFaul
"If Russia eventually reverts to a full-blown autocratic regime, it is not inconceivable that tension and competition once again will define Russian-American relations. At this critical moment in Russia's internal development, American foreign policy makers cannot afford to be disengaged."
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Title: What Does Putin Want?
Author: Peter Lavelle
"It is not hard to see Putin as an authoritarian. In most ways he is, based on Western standards. But, given Russia's current development trajectory, he probably has to be. . . . Either the Kremlin continues its very hard-handed approach to restructuring the economy or Russia risks becoming in effect a Burkina Faso with nuclear weapons."
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Title: The Yukos Affair
Author: Marshall I. Goldman
"The story of Yukos Oil, [its chairman Mikhail] Khodorkovsky's rise from obscurity, and the government's prosecution of him is also a parable about Russia's struggle to adapt to a market economy and the all but inevitable backlash from doing it badly."
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Title: Siberia: Russia's Economic Heartland and Daunting Dilemma
Author: Fiona Hill
"Russian oil is predominantly in Siberia, and ultimately Siberia is where Russia's wealth is. And just like the energy sector, how Siberia itself is developed remains critical" to the future growth of the Russian economy.
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Title: Chechnya Ten Years Later
Author: Nabi Abdullaev
"The Chechen conflict is not so much about who will govern Chechnya. It is about whether Chechnya will be governed at all."
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Title: Exploiting Rivalries: Putin's Foreign Policy
Author: Mark N. Katz
"Russian foreign policy-makers seem convinced that playing both sides against the middle with other nations is a clever way to advance Moscow's interests. It may take many more foreign policy setbacks before they are persuaded otherwise."
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Title: Georgia's Rose Revolution
Author: Lincoln Mitchell
"The Rose Revolution represented a victory not only for the Georgian people but for democracy globally. [It] . . . demonstrated that, by aggressively contesting elections, exercising basic freedoms of speech and assembly, and applying smart strategic thinking, a democratic opposition can defeat a weak semi-democratic kleptocracy."
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Title: The Month in Review
An international chronology of events in August 2004, country by country, day by day.
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Title: RUSSIA AND EURASIA
A map of Russia and Eurasia.
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