Russian Presidential Election

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In The Media

Russian Presidential Election

By Rose Gottemoeller

Published on Mar 3, 2008

Source: The Diane Rehm Show

Carnegie Moscow Center's Rose Gottemoeller discussed domestic and international challenges facing newly-elected Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on The Diane Rehm Show. The hand-picked successor to outgoing President Putin faces issues from sustaining economic growth to tensions with the West over missile defense, Kosovo independence and NATO expansion.

Click here to listen to the broadcast.

About the Author

Rose Gottemoeller

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Nuclear Policy Program

Rose Gottemoeller is a nonresident senior fellow in Carnegie’s Nuclear Policy Program. She also serves as lecturer at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. Ambassador Gottemoeller served as the deputy secretary general of NATO from 2016 to 2019.

Recent Work

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Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.

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