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Militant Attack on Tsentoroi Village

The militant attack on the home village of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov demonstrates the vulnerability of his regime, which is generally considered to be the most successful in the North Caucasus and quite capable of guaranteeing stability, explains Alexey Malashenko.

Russia-Armenia

The Wider Implications of the Russian-Armenian Defense Deal

The new Russian-Armenian defense protocol brings Moscow one step closer to being the principal security provider and peace guarantor in the post-Soviet region. To fulfill this role, Russia must refocus its strategy from resisting NATO's drive and U.S. deployments to conflict prevention and conflict resolution, write Dmitri Trenin and Andrei Trenin.

More on security in the post-Soviet region:: CSTO: Ripe for Reform?

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Medvedev's Climate Moment

The wildfires and heat wave that recently ravaged central Russia have brought climate change to the forefront of the country’s domestic agenda. Adnan Vatansever suggests that the fires provide the Kremlin with an opportunity to prove its commitment to energy efficiency as well as economic modernization.

More on climate change:: Russia's Fires Breathe New Life into Climate Picture; Russia's Climate Change Record

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What Next For Iraq?

After seven years, U.S. combat troops have left Iraq but the country remains far from stable. Marina Ottaway examines what the drawdown of U.S. forces will mean for the stability of the country, U.S. influence in the region, and whether Iraq is in a better position than it was prior to the 2003 invasion.

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The New START Treaty: One Step in the Right Direction

The New START Treaty is under consideration in the legislatures of the United States and Russia. In their new Briefing, Alexei Arbatov and Vladimir Dvorkin examine the Treaty and note that it is a major step in the controlled reduction of nuclear weapons, following the almost 20-year pause after the conclusion of the START I.

More on New START:: New START: Too Modest to Merit Partisan Bickering [op-ed]; START Treaty as a Start of a New Era [radio broadcast]; What Comes After New START: The Goals for Future Arms Control and Security Cooperation [event]; Conditions and Prospects for Further Progress in Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation [event]; Assessment of the New START Treaty: Prospects for Ratification [event]

Carnegie Moscow Center’s New Website

The Global Vision In Practice Welcome to the Carnegie Moscow Center’s new website. On May 1, 2010, the Center moved its Internet presence onto a platform fully integrated with the Carnegie Endowment’s global network, with its offices in Washington, Moscow, Brussels, Beirut and Beijing. In addition to presenting our own materials in a fresher and more user friendly format, the new website will allow seamless navigation throughout the world of analysis and insight that the Endowment provides, putting our work in Moscow in the global context in which it rightfully belongs.

How to Make Peace With Georgia

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Russian-Georgian relations have not substantially improved since the end of hostilities in August 2008. Dmitri Trenin suggests that the Russian government should use soft power to win back sympathy from the Georgian population in preparation for a change in bilateral relations once Georgian President Saakashvili’s term in office ends in 2013.

The Modernization of Russia's Foreign Policy

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The Russian government’s drive to modernize its economy is increasingly reflected in its foreign policy priorities. Dmitri Trenin examines how the modernization agenda has guided Russian policy towards the United States, its stance on Iran’s nuclear program, and its relations with China.

In the Russian Wildfires, Will Putin Get Burned?

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The Russian government’s poor response to the wildfires will further widen the chasm separating the nation’s authorities from society, warn Lilia Shevtsova and David J. Kramer.

The Hague Court Decision on Kosovo

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The Hague ruling on Kosovo's independence indirectly strengthens the position of other self-proclaimed states, including Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Nagorno-Karabakh. However, writes Dmitri Trenin, legal rulings do not negate the need to find a political solution.

Featured Publications

Irregular Triangle: State-Business-Society Relations in Russia’s Regions

Relations between the state, business and society in Russia are fragmented. Interconnected, three-way dialogues between these three groups are practically nonexistent.

Afghanistan: A View from Moscow

Despite its importance, Russia’s perspective on the war in Afghanistan has typically been missing from previous analyses of coalition policy. Moscow views Afghanistan largely through the prism of security threats to itself and its Central Asian neighborhood.

The New Treaty on Strategic Offensive Arms: One Step in the Right Direction

The signing of the New START in April 2010 was a major step forward in building a legally binding, verifiable strategic arms reduction framework, but more action is necessary to overcome persistent mutual mistrust and bureaucratic obstacles hampering further force reductions.

Featured Events

Moscow

Five Years in Moscow: Impressions and Reflections of the Danish Ambassador

Europe encompasses more than just the European Union; Russians are Europeans as well. As Russia continues to evolve, it needs wide-ranging efforts at modernization, and the European Union can certainly help. Yet Russia needs to work with the entirety of the EU, not only its larger members.

Washington, D.C., and Moscow

After Silicon Valley: U.S.-Russia Economic Cooperation

July marks the one-year anniversary of the U.S.–Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission, launched by Presidents Obama and Medvedev in their July 2009 summit meeting with the goal of advancing bilateral cooperation on a wide range of issues, including business development and economic relations.

Moscow

Kyrgyzstan After the Referendum: What Next?

The future for Kyrgyzstan remains unclear and the nature of the political systems in other Central Asian states creates the risk that conflicts such as those recently seen in Kyrgyzstan could break out in neighboring countries.

Moscow

What Comes After New START: The Goals for Future Arms Control and Security Cooperation

U.S.-Russian security relations extend beyond the crucial New START Treaty; both the United States and Russia recognize the need for engaging in broader security cooperation.

A new vision for the Global Century - Highlights from our centers

Innovative policy research from Carnegie's integrated international network of experts. Browse the week's highlights from Carnegie centers across the globe...

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Beijing
Brussels

The Last Chance to Avoid a Global Trade War

Chinese economy Major economies must help the United States absorb the burden of rebalancing global trade or risk a rise in American protectionism that could trigger a trade war, explains Michael Pettis.

The Importance of U.S. Military Aid to Lebanon

Military aid for Lebanon The recent moves by the U.S. Congress to cut off military aid to Lebanon could damage U.S. strategic interests in the region, warns Paul Salem.

Arms Control Spring in Beijing

Chinese perspective on arms control China plays an increasingly important role in achieving a number of the goals for disarmament and nonproliferation contained within the U.S. Nuclear Posture Review and the Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference.

Where's Europe?

Turkey and the EU Fabrice Pothier discusses the changes going on within Europe and how they will shape its foreign policy and impact its global strength.

Kyrgyzstan - Country in Transition

Paradigm Lost: The Euro in Crisis

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Issue Spotlight

Economic Crisis

Despite the nascent recovery, many experts believe that the reasons for Russia’s downturn persist, including state-led monopolies, dependence on natural resources, non-market means of regulation, the lack of clear rules of the game and poor transparency. How will the crisis continue to affect the lives of Russians, and how effective is the government's response?

Energy Security

What is the role of science and technology in strengthening energy security in Russia and Eurasia? Particular attention is paid to energy initiatives in which Russia can act alongside the U.S. and Europe. In addition, the Center examines Arctic technologies, the changing nature of hydrocarbon exploration, extraction and transportation, nuclear energy, clean coal and energy efficiency.

Iranian Nuclear Problem

The U.S. sees Iran’s nuclear program as the biggest threat to security and insists on international sanctions. Iran argues that its program is exclusively peaceful and threatens to withdraw from the NPT if pressed. Will the international community pick up arms, or will it allow Teheran to achieve the full fuel cycle, under IAEA watch? That choice will determine regional and global security.

Korean Knot

For decades, the North Korean nuclear problem has been at the center of Russian, American and Chinese foreign policy. North Korea seeks to exchange its nuclear program for security guarantees and economic support. Washington will not move forward until North Korea’s program is dismantled. China and Russia are active moderators between the two. But the issue is not only how to escape the crisis, but how to lay a new foundation for peace on the Korean peninsula.

Medvedev's Presidency

As Putin’s successor, Medvedev operates within the inherited, clannish framework of “overmanaged democracy”, while Putin retains significant influence, now as a prime minister. The emergence of a second power center creates further uncertainty in a political system that faces inevitable change, driven by the myriad of social and economic challenges the country faces. Of particular importance is the strengthening and modernization of Russia’s weakened institutions.

Middle East and Central Asia

Political transformation, state building, the development of civil society and international relations are reviewed in concert throughout the macroregion, whose borders stretch from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean and from the southern Urals to Xinjiang and which remains home to major conflicts of global concern. In recent years, these processes have been augmented by the issue of radical Islam, the roots of and prospects for which are at the center of analysis.

New Eastern Europe

How stable are the new political systems in the region? Can these young states cope with the challenges of transition and modernization? Is there only one successful model, or is there also room for authoritarian-led economic growth, as in Russia and Belarus? How successful will the democratic projects be in the Baltic states, Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova?

U.S.-Russia Relations

Further improvements in the U.S.-Russian relationship would serve the interests of both countries, including by strengthening of Russia’s standing in the world, and would lay the foundation for solutions to such problems as collective security, nuclear nonproliferation, terrorism, energy security, the Iranian nuclear question and the stabilization of Afghanistan.

War and Peace in the Caucasus

The emergence of the new states of the Caucasus has been strained by territorial disputes. Conflicts smolder in Chechnya, Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh. Terrorism and extremism have spread into the region from neighboring Middle East and Central Asia. Islam has emerged as a factor of public life. Caspian oil and its transit routes to the West have become the object of rivalry between major powers. How these challenges are met will determine the security outlook for Russia, Europe and, in part, the United States.

Yukos Affair

The imprisonment of Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his second trial reflect the strong-arm tendencies of Russian politics. What are the chances of a democratic reversal? How will the Khodorkovsky case develop, and what impact will it have on the country’s political life?

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