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Russia’s economy suffered one of the world’s steepest declines in gross domestic product in the wake of the global financial crisis. Two years later, Russia’s economic indicators still tell a grim story.
Mutual understanding and cooperation between the United States, China, and other countries is essential for overcoming the challenges facing the nonproliferation regime.
The normalization process between Turkey and Armenia stalled only months after its auspicious beginning in October 2009, when the foreign ministers of the two countries signed two historic protocols establishing diplomatic relations between the bitterly divided neighbors.
While there is virtually no hope that the 2009 Armenian–Turkish Protocols will be ratified soon, both parties should take steps to rebuild confidence and affirm their faith in the process.
The person who is chosen to replace ousted Moscow Mayor Luzhkov is less important than the extent to which the new City Hall changes its relationship with Moscow's citizens, business community, and its political opponents.
The dismissal of Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and the surrounding public speculation provide a glimpse inside Russia’s political system, its organization, and the people who inhabit it.
The Pacific island microstates of Nauru and Tuvalu have found an incentive to take sides in the efforts of Caucasian breakaway territories like South Ossetia and Abkhazia to gain international recognition of their sovereignty.
As the melting Arctic ice cap opens new shipping lanes and makes it easier to access strategic energy reserves, countries are racing to gain control over the Arctic’s abundant natural resources.
While the Caucasus is too often treated as a subset of Russian history or as merely a gateway to Asia, it remains an important and combustible region, whose inner dynamics and history deserve a much more complex appreciation from the wider world.
Recent developments in Russia's foreign policy reflect the country's struggle to preserve its status as a “great power” through modernization.
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