Russia
Online Resources
Great Decisions 2008: Spring Updates [PDF]
Great Decisions 2008 Spring Updates available online or download as PDF
Great Decisions 2008 Spring Update: Russia
Read the Spring Update to the Great Decisions 2008 topic "Russia."
A George Washington Moment, Putin Style
From Foreign Policy Magazine, "Russia's outgoing president may think he can hang on to the reins of power, but his own story is the best reminder that even hand-picked successors can have minds their own."
Across Putin's Russia
A five-part multimedia slideshow by a Financial Times correspondent who traveled through eastern Russia to discover why President Vladimir Putin, increasingly feared and distrusted abroad, enjoys rising popularity at home.
BBC: Putin Project
A BBC World Service special feature on Russian President Vladimir Putin's administration and how he has built widespread support among Russians for his policies and his allies.
GDTV 2008 Transcript - Reexamining Russia
Transcript for the Great Decisions Television Series 2008 show #4, Reexamining Russia.
novayagazeta [English Language]
Leading Russian newspaper English language site.
Pravda [English Version]
Leading Russian newspaper English language site.
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Official site of Russia's Foreign Ministry.
Johnson's Russia List
News and analysis from David Johnson.
Russia: Key Facts
Background and Key Facts on Russia from the BBC.
Carnegie Moscow Center
Established in 1993, the Center accommodates foreign and Russian researchers collaborating with Washington staff on a variety of topical areas and policy-relevant projects.
Harriman Institute
A leading center for the advancement of knowledge in the field of Russian and Eurasian studies, the Institute seeks to create a forum for intellectual exchange.
Kennan Institute
The Institute, in conjunction with the Woodrow Wilson Center, is a nonpartisan institution improving American expertise and knowledge about Russia and successor states to the Soviet Union with experience in shaping U.S.-Russian policy.
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research
The organization is the largest provider of resources to U.S. scholars for postdoctoral research in the fields of the economic, political, social and historical development of Russia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe.
National Opinion Balloting 2008
Download the 2008 Ballot or take the online version!
Recommended Readings »
The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West
In late 1999 when Vladimir Putin was named Prime Minister, Russia was a budding democracy. Multiple parties campaigned for seats in the Duma, the nation's parliament. The media criticized the government freely. Eight years later as Putin completes his second term as president of Russia and announces his bid for prime minister, the country is under a repressive regime. Human rights abuses are widespread. The Kremlin is openly hostile to the West. Yet the United States and Europe have been slow to confront the new reality, in effect, helping Russia win what experts are now calling the New Cold War.
Kremlin Rising : Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution
In the tradition of Hedrick Smith's The Russians, Robert G. Kaiser's Russia: The People and the Power, and David Remnick's Lenin's Tomb comes an eloquent and eye-opening chronicle of Vladimir Putin's Russia, from this generation's leading Moscow correspondents.
With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself on a fitful transition to Western-style democracy. But a decade later, Boris Yeltsin's handpicked successor, Vladimir Putin, a childhood hooligan turned KGB officer who rose from nowhere determined to restore the order of the Soviet past, resolved to bring an end to the revolution. Kremlin Rising goes behind the scenes of contemporary Russia to reveal the culmination of Project Putin, the secret plot to reconsolidate power in the Kremlin.
Russia in Search of Itself
In the turbulent decade since the collapse of the Soviet Union, conditions have worsened considerably for many Russians, and a wide-ranging debate has raged over the nature and destiny of their country. In Russia in Search of Itself, James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress and a noted expert on Russia, examines the efforts of a proud but troubled nation to find a post-Soviet identity. The agenda has not been controlled from the top-down and center-out as in Russia's past. Nor has it been set by any intellectual giant such as Sakharov or Solzhenitsyn.
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