• Op-Ed

Putin Must Secure Russia's Far East

• Dmitri Trenin
• March 01, 2005
• Financial Times

Popular political mythology usually thinks of Russia looking east and west, like the double-headed eagle of its state emblem. In reality, Russia has always treated the east and the west very differently.

• Op-Ed

The Essential Vladimir Putin

• Anatol Lieven
• February 28, 2005
• Foreign Policy

A semiauthoritarian present is Russia’s best hope for a liberal future.

• Policy Outlook

A Spreading Danger: Time for a New Policy Toward Chechnya

• Fiona Hill, Anatol Lieven, Thomas de Waal
• February 23, 2005

The ongoing conflict in and around Chechnya is helping to feed the wider international jihadi movement, and is endangering the West as well as Russia. Mutual recriminations over the conflict have badly damaged relations between Russia and the West. While most of the blame for this lies with Russian policies, the Western approach to the issue has often been unhelpful and irresponsible.

• Op-Ed

Headed For a Fall In Russia?

• Maria Lipman
• February 23, 2005
• Washington Post

• Event

Russia’s Policy Towards the New States in Eurasia

• Dmitri Trenin, Martha Brill Olcott
• February 23, 2005
• Washington, D.C.

The Ukrainian Orange Revolution has marked a new phase in Russia’s geopolitical retrenchment, which started after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ukraine has finally elected a democratic regime and a Western/EU-oriented foreign policy. Russia has suffered a major blow, and the system of alliances led by the EU and the U.S. are now the natural point of attraction for many of the New States.

• Op-Ed

Finding Russia's True Friends and Foes

• Michael McFaul
• February 18, 2005
• The Moscow Times
• • 中文

• Op-Ed

Dealing With Putin

• Michael McFaul, James Goldgeier
• February 18, 2005
• The Weekly Standard

The "realist" argument for ignoring Putin's rollback of democratic practices in the name of national security interests can now only undermine Bush's credibility. Bush has made clear that he plans to promote liberty in every pocket of the world--surely including the largest country of all.

• Testimony

Democracy in Retreat in Russia

• Anders Aslund
• February 17, 2005
• • 中文

The retreat of democracy in Russia is nothing that has been forced upon President Vladimir Putin but an intentional result of his. This is demonstrated by the major events of 2004 and what they tell us about the nature of Putin’s regime and how it is evolving.

• Op-Ed

Yushchenko vs. Putin

• Anders Aslund
• February 10, 2005
• International Herald Tribune

• Event

Pre-Bratislava Summit Briefing

• Andrew Kuchins, Dmitri Trenin, Michael McFaul, Vyacheslav Nikonov
• February 08, 2005
• Washington, D.C.
• Pre Bratislava Summit Briefing

On Tuesday, January 8, 2005, Carnegie Endowment hosted "Pre-Bratislava Summit Briefing." The speakers were Carnegie Senior Associates Andrew Kuchins, Dmitri Trenin, Michael McFaul and Vyacheslav Nikonov, President of the Polity Foundation in Moscow. Carnegie Senior Associate Rose Gottemoeller chaired the discussion.