Russia and Eurasia
October 2005
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October Article Abstracts
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Title: Russia and the West: A Dangerous Drift
Author: Michael McFaul
"Should Western leaders try to stop this perilous drift of disengagement? Yes. Can they stop it anytime in the foreseeable future? Not likely."
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Title: Political Graft: The Russian Way
Author: Marshall I. Goldman
"While we normally think of corruption as attempts by government officials to extort money from private sector businessmen, Russia offers increasingly numerous examples in which government officials go further and actually attempt to take over a business for the state or, recently, for themselves."
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Title: Constrained or Irrelevant: The Media in Putin's Russia
Author: Masha Lipman
"The problem with today's media in Russia is not just that the Kremlin controls national television, but also that those publications that remain uncontrolled do not make a difference. . . ."
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Title: Is the Orange Revolution Fading?
Author: Dominique Arel
"The Orange Revolution still has the potential to yield a profound regime change in Ukraine, but despite their relative youth and familiarity with Western modes of political conduct, Orange elites have yet to give indication that this change is imminent."
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Title: The Great Powers in Central Asia
Author: Martha Brill Olcott
"The United States, Russia, and China have spent the past few years jockeying for position in the region. . . . [But] the challenges facing Central Asian states remain largely unchanged, and governments there have received few new tools to address them."
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Title: Autocrats, Islamists, and the Rise of Radicalism in Central Asia
Author: Eric McGlinchey
"Islamist radicalism in Central Asia . . . is in large part a response to authoritarianism. Where governments tolerate some degree of political opposition-either in parliaments or in the press-society's enthusiasm for Islamist goals is limited."
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Title: From Pipedream to Pipeline: A Caspian Success Story
Author: Brenda Shaffer
"The goal of winning the pipeline battle was less to gain the moderate volumes of oil and gas in the Caspian than to maintain (in the case of Russia) or attain (in the case of the United States and Iran) significant presence in the region."
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Title: Book Reviews: Topic: Remember Arms Control?
Author: Reviewer: Thomas Graham Jr.
Book title: Multilateral Diplomacy and the NPT: An Insider's Account
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Title: The Month in Review
An international chronology, country by country, day by day, of events in August 2005.
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Title: RUSSIA AND EURASIA
A map of Russia and Eurasia.
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