Carnegie Moscow Center
The March 20th Taiwanese elections and referendum mark a critical point in an already tense cross-Strait relationship Listen to audio from a pre-election analysis of the issues at stake for the United States and Asia.
12:15 PM EST. Listen live to a post-election briefing with Carnegie Senior Associates Andrew Kuchins, Lilia Shevtsova, Alexei Malashenko, and Anders Aslund
A discussion meeting on the state of military reform in Russia with Alexei Arbatov, Head of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Moscow Center.
A panel discussion with Carnegie Senior Associate Martha Brill Olcott, Carnegie Visiting Scholar Husain Haqqani, Carnegie Moscow Associate Alexei Malashenko, and David Cook, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University.
Democracy and Rule of Law Project discusses the implications of political turmoil in Iran. Audio from this event is available shortly.
A presentation by Dr. Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of Russian Democratic Party "Yabloko"
A discussion meeting with Dmitri Trenin, Senior Associate and Deputy Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, on the new tendencies in Russia’s foreign policy under President Putin, including the future of U.S.-Russia relations.
A discussion meeting with H.E. Askar Aitmatov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic.
12:15 – 2:00 p.m. David Kay, Joseph Cirincione, Rose Gottemoeller, and Robert Litwak to speak at Carnegie
The coming years will witness the creation of new political structures and parties on the liberal and leftist flanks in Russia. A "total re-arranging of the old political blocs" is in progress. Expelling Russia from international groups such as the G-8 to encourage domestic change is a bad idea, because "totalitarian, authoritarian regimes flourish in isolation."