The Russian leadership lives in a tension-ridden house. Putin and Medvedev’s tandem system is beginning to falter. The recession has exposed frictions between the two men and revealed Putin’s inadequacies...
With the rise in oil prices and a conservative fiscal policy, Russia turned from a debtor nation into an economic powerhouse, creating a compromise between the excesses of the free market and the inefficiencies of a command economy
Isolation allows rogue regimes to extend their longevity and stability.
Sixty years after Kennan, Russia still baffles. But Putin's managed pluralism has deep roots in Russian opinion.
It is shortsighted to judge Russia's progress by superficial materialist measures--or have we forgotten what the Cold War was really about? At a deeper social and spiritual level, the country remains in peril.
Seven seasoned observers react to William Odom's interpretation of post-Soviet Russian reality, and Odom replies.
Jeffrey Sachs, Anders Aslund, Marek Dabrowski, Peter Reddaway, Igor Aristov, Wayne Merry, Michael Hudson, Daivd Ellerman, Steven Rosefielde, Janine Wedel
Why U.S. intelligence has not performed better with respect to the crime and corruption that have helped frustrate Russia's transition to a stable, free-market democracy.
Chalmers Johnson, Martin Feldstein and Francis Fukuyama
"In war the moral is to the physical as ten to one.