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While the end of communism did not bring about an end of state paternalism or uncontested governance in Russia, the country’s post-communist development has led to a number of legitimate individual freedoms and the rise of a consumer society.
Twenty years after the end of the Soviet Union, Russia lacks a responsible and accountable government and is missing a shared sense of nationhood.
The authorities in Baku seem intent on building a new Dubai on the Caspian, but there is a dark side to the boom in Azerbaijan’s capital.
The Nagorny Karabakh peace process is entering an unusually difficult phase following the disappointing meeting in Kazan between Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian and his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev.
Making the U.S.-Russian Bilateral Presidential Commission a permanent structure will help ensure continued success in managing relations between the two countries.
Congressman Michael Turner spoke on the House defense act and its relation to the New START agreement, further nuclear reductions, U.S. nuclear targeting strategy, missile defense, and non-strategic nuclear weapons in Europe.
A regime to verify the abolition of nuclear weapons requires three distinct components: the verification that declared civilian nuclear materials are not weaponized, the dismantlement of declared warheads, and the absence of undeclared nuclear warheads.
Russia’s next president must improve financial regulation and reduce the country’s dependence on oil revenue in order to prevent economic growth from deteriorating in the coming years.
The U.S.-Russian bilateral relationship is still vulnerable, and the United States and Russia should take steps now to build a foundation for cooperation that is so broad and deep it cannot easily be upset.
The next round of U.S.- Russia arms control presents some truly daunting challenges but there is much that the Obama administration could do in the remainder of its first term to lay the groundwork for another treaty while reducing nuclear risks.
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