
Presentation by Ivan Rybkin, former Speaker of the Russian State Duma and former Secretary of the Russian Security Council on the Russian military involvement in the present Chechen war.

This meeting launched the new Carnegie publication, Russia after the Fall, edited by Andrew Kuchins. Listen to audio from the event, or read the transcript.
After initial consolidation and restructuring, Russian industry is on the verge of a big change. While the first steps to gain productivity required specific Russian skills, Russian businessmen understand that the future calls for foreign technologies and skills. Some are bringing in managerial and technical expertise, and others are selling their companies to foreign bidders.
Presentation by Georgia's Ambassador to the US and a panel discussion.
When diplomatic historians look back on the 1990s, they should describe it as the era of European integration. They will do so, however, only if the project is completed. As the Bush administration begins the process of promoting democratic regime change along a new frontier in the Muslim world, it must also finish the job on the European frontier.
We must continue to focus on the control and reduction of nuclear weapons. This issue is not the highest agenda item in U.S.-Russian relations any more, however, we need continued high-level interactions that result in policy tools to effect control and reductions, in the first instance legally-binding treaties and agreements like the Moscow Treaty.