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Some issues surrounding the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty deserve new attention. The future of verification and transparency is especially fertile ground and demands attention, given the Bush administration’s preference to see START and its verification protocol go out of force at the end of 2009.
As the United States and Russia argue over missile shields and develop new weapons to overcome them, some wonder if all this tough talk could rekindle old rivalries.
On May 24, 2007, Carnegie senior associate Lilia Shevstova testified before the United States Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission) about the current state of democracy and society in Russia.
It is obvious that President Putin is building a more autocratic regime, an internal process that has strained Russia’s relations with the West. A new American policy must pursue both a more ambitious bilateral relationship and a more long-term strategy for strengthening Russian civil, political, and economic societies, which ultimately will help push Russia back onto a democratizing path.
President Vladimir Putin has sharply criticized the United States and NATO and suspended Russian participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty. Russians are clearly frustrated with what they perceive to be a lack of respect for their concerns, but Putin's omissions are important clues to Russian tactics in this scrap with the United States.
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