Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Presentations by General Alexander Piskunov, Deputy Chief of Staff to former Prime Minister Stepashin; Sergei Rogov, Director, USA and Canada Institute; and Valery Mazing, Head of Arms Control Department, USA and Canada Institute
Presenation by Anatoly Chubais, former chief of Russia’s State Privatization Committee
Combining keen political analysis with the unique perspective of a native observer, Lilia Shevtsova offers a valuable assessment of the forces that will shape the post-Yeltsin era.
Why has Russian law not got stuck, although plenty of laws have been promulgated and all the legal bodies have undergone substantial reform? So why do not Russians trust and use the judicial system to a greater extent?
In making assessments of Russia's behavior in the world, it is critical that we recognize that Russia is not a totalitarian state ruled by a Communist Party with a single, clearly articulated foreign policy. That state disappeared in 1991. Rather, Russia is a democratizing state, and Russia's foreign policy, in turn, is a product of domestic politics in a pluralistic system.
