On September 24-25, 2007, Carnegie convened former Russian and American ambassadors to discuss factors that have helped or hindered the bilateral relationship: in short, to examine what has and has not worked.
Keynote address by the Honorable Lee H. Hamilton, Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, at the Carnegie celebration of 200 Years of U.S.-Russian Diplomatic Relations.
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Experts say that greenhouse-gas trading designed under the Kyoto Protocol was an important first step in reducing emissions increasingly linked to climate change. William Chandler, a senior policy analyst for energy and climate, says trading programs have achieved mixed results. Chandler argues that the United Nations should rethink how it implements its trading program to make it more effective.
Dmitri Trenin, Deputy Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, sat down for a discussion with Marvin Kalb of Harvard University's Shorenstein Center to mark the publication of his new book, "Getting Russia Right."
Professor Valery Tishkov, director of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology and former Russian Minister for Nationalities, gave a presentation on Russia's future as a multi-ethnic nation.
Today, integration with the West is no longer a goal of Russian foreign policy. Putin instead seeks to balance his and other nations' power against that of the West and the United States in particular, reflecting a fundamental shift in Kremlin thinking about global politics and constituting new potential threats to U.S. influence.
This book sheds new light on our understanding of contemporary Russia, providing Western audiences with an insider’s explanation of how the country has arrived at its current position and how the United States and Europe can deal with it more productively.
On August 28, the Carnegie Moscow Center and the Center for Policy Studies-Russia held a roundtable celebrating fifteen years of the Nunn-Lugar Program.
This month marks 70 years since the drastic surge of Stalin's terror: In 1937 the Kremlin butcher scrapped even the faintest appearance of court procedures. The infamous "troika trials" -- a system of justice by rubber-stamped death sentences -- killed more than 436,000 in one year. The anniversary observances were intended to honor the victims. But the ceremony held earlier this month at Butovo, the site of mass killings on the outskirts of Moscow, revealed the government's desire to keep the public's mind off reflections about terror and its perpetrators.
Vladimir Putin's open attempts to reassert Russia's position as a world power have been met with trepidation from the international community. Further, Russia faces domestic constraints, both economic and military, that will complicate Putin's efforts.

























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