• Event

Restructuring Soviet Enterprises: Challenges and Solutions

• Oleg Deripaska, Anders Aslund
• December 06, 2005

Oleg Deripaska, Chairman of Basic Element, explained the modernization of GAZ, one of Russia's largest automobile factories.

• Event

How Much Russian Energy is Good for Europe?

• Pekka Sutela, Anders Aslund
• November 10, 2005
• Washington, D.C.

Global energy companies still want to go into Russia, even if the conditions are not what they had once hoped. Most countries don’t sell majority shares in big fields. So Russia is becoming a more normal energy-producing country.

• Event

Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conference

• November 07, 2005

The 2005 Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conference attracted over 800 experts, officials, and journalists from around the world. The conference provided an open forum for informed discussion on the most pressing nonproliferation issues facing the world today, including Iran, North Korea, and the nuclear fuel cycle.  Visit our conference website to catch up on anything you may have missed, including video and audio, transcripts, presentations, guest bloggers and photo galleries of this amazing two-day event.

• Event

Reading Russia Right

• Dmitri Trenin, George Perkovich
• November 03, 2005

Dmitri Trenin, of the Carnegie Moscow Center, discussed his recent policy brief with a group of experts.

• Event

Russian Foreign Policy: A New Stage of Development

• Konstantin Kosachev, Anders Aslund
• November 02, 2005
• Washington, D.C.

Russian foreign policy is now entering a fourth stage. The first three were associated with Foreign Minister Kozyrev, Foreign Minister Primakov, and Putin during his first term. In the first two stages Russia's foreign policy was reactive. In the third Russian foreign policy became more active. Now Putin faces a choice between realpolitik and post-World War II international security cooperation.

• Op-Ed

What's a Corrupt Election Among Friends?

• Michael McFaul, Chingiz Mammadov
• October 23, 2005
• Los Angeles Times

As voters in Azerbaijan go to the polls, they will participate in an election whose conduct will serve as a referendum on U.S. efforts to spread democracy. A free and fair election will signal that Islam, oil and democracy can coexist. A tainted vote will affirm that those elements don't mix well, and show that the West is indifferent to democracy when oil and military bases are at stake.

• Event

An Energy Vision to Link Our Nations

• Anders Aslund
• October 21, 2005
• Washington, D.C.
• Event Transcript (PDF)

Alexander Medvedev, Director General of Gazpromexport and Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee of Gazprom, discussed his company's future and the prospects for U.S.-Russia energy cooperation.

• Proliferation Analysis

Megatons to Megawatts

• Ben Bain
• October 20, 2005

One-tenth of America’s electricity comes from fuel made from Russian nuclear warheads.  The Megatons to Megawatts program converts highly-enriched uranium in Russian weapons into low-enriched uranium that is used in US civilian nuclear power reactors.  The program reached an important milestone in early October - converting 255 metric tons of warhead material, the equivalent of over 10,000 weapons. (Read More)

• Policy Outlook

Reading Russia Right

• Dmitri Trenin
• October 19, 2005
• Carnegie Endowment

• Event

The Essence of Putin's Managed Democracy

• Nikolay Petrov, Michael McFaul
• October 18, 2005

Nikolay Petrov, of the Carnegie Moscow Center, analyzed the political system that has evolved under Russian President Vladimir Putin. He argued this system cannot survive unless it becomes more democratic.