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From: "Marina Barnett" <mbarnett@ceip.org>
Subject: Carnegie Russia Newsletter
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
www.ceip.org
Russian and Eurasian Program E-Newsletter
June 2006
In this Issue:
- In Focus: Carnegie resources on the G-8 Summit 2006
- U.S.-Russian Relations: Carnegie Moscow Conference on Russia-West Relations; Trenin on Russia's New Policy of Strength; Kuchins on Vice President Cheney's Speech; Lipman on Fear of the West in Russia; Gottemoeller and Arbatov on Iran.
- Energy: Russo-Chinese Energy Relations; Energy Strategy of Ukraine; Russia 's Future as Energy Superpower.
- Russia: The Fate of Russian Democracy with Markov and McFaul; McFaul and Goldgeier on Russian democracy; Petrov on elections and civil society.
- The Caucasus: Geopolitics and Human Rights in Azerbaijan; Armenia 's Economic Reforms; Malashenko on elections in Chechnya.
- Latest Publications : Trenin on Russia 's relations with the West; Pro et Contra on Civil Society and the State.
- In the next Issue: Andijan, Akramiya and Akram Yuldashev.
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC and the Carnegie Moscow Center will be holding a series of discussions, press conferences, and meetings in Washington and Moscow in preparation for the G8 Summit from July 15-17 in St. Petersburg. For Carnegie resources on the G8 Summit, including upcoming and past events, publications and expertise, visit the G8 Summit 2006 Page.
Related Event:
"The Russian Economy and the Upcoming G-8 Summit" with Aleksei Kudrin, Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation . Full text transcript is available.
Related Publication:
"A Summit Scant Remembered," by Rose Gottemoeller, The Moscow Times , April 28, 2006.
U.S.-Russian Relations
"Does Russia Need the West?"
On May 30, 2006 the Carnegie Moscow Center hosted a conference on Russia-West Relations, featuring presentations by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, H.E. William Burns, Ambassador of the United States to the Russian Federation, and Yevgeny Velikhov, Secretary of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation. Full text transcripts available.
Related Event:
"Russia 's New Policy of Strength: Style of Substance" with Dmitri Trenin, Deputy Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center .
Related Publications:
"Look Who's Back," by Andrew C. Kuchins, Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2006.
"Fear of the West in Russia," by Masha Lipman, The Washington Post, May 2, 2006.
"Russia and the Iranian Nuclear Crisis," by Alexei Arbatov, Web Commentary, May 23, 2006.
"The Russia Card," by Rose Gottemoeller, New York Times, May 3, 2006.
Energy
- Stephen J. Blank, Research Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Army War College, on “ Can Anyone Save This Marriage? Russo-Chinese Energy Relations.”
- Oleksandr Todiychuk, Chairman of the Board of Joint Stock Company UkrTransNafta, on Issues of Energy Security and Ukraine 's Energy Strategy.
- Vladimir Milov, Director of the Institute for Energy Policy, on Russia 's Future as an Energy Superpower.
" Will the Authoritarians of the World Unite?" by Andrew C. Kuchins, The Moscow Times, March 28, 2006.
"Russia : How Sovereign? How Democratic?"
Sergei Markov – Michael McFaul Debate on Russian democracy and the causes of poor U.S.-Russian relations. Markov, Director of the Institute for Political Studies in Moscow and Head of Russia's Public Forum on International Affairs, claimed Russia is becoming more democratic and blamed U.S. foreign policy for making the process more difficult. He predicted the West would see Russia 's Chechnya policy as a success in five years. McFaul, Senior Associate with the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment, stressed the genuine political competition in 1990s Russia and called the debate over U.S. policy an excuse for democratic backsliding. Full text transcript is available.
Related Event:
"Elections in Russia's Overmanaged Democracy" with Nikolay Petrov of the Carnegie Moscow Center 's Program on Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions.
Related Publications:
"A Month of Consolidation," by Nikolay Petrov, The Moscow Times, May 16, 2006.
" Russia's No Democracy. So What?" by Michael A. McFaul and James M. Goldgeier, The Washington Post , April 9, 2006.
"Organizing a Civil Society," by Nikolay Petrov, The Moscow Times, April 4, 2006.
"Governors' Appointments: First Year Results," by Nikolay Petrov, Carnegie Moscow Center Briefing Paper, Vol. 8, Issue 3, April 2006 (In Russian).
The Caucasus
- Hajimurad Sadaddinov, Director of the Azerbaijan Foundation for Development of Democracy and Protection of Human Rights, on Geopolitics and Human Rights in Azerbaijan.
- Vahram Nercissiantz, Chief Economic Advisor to the President of Armenia, on Armenia 's Economic Reforms: Results and Challenges.
How Chechnya Voted (in Russian)
Alexey Malashenko, an observer of elections in Chechnya in 1997, 2003, 2004 and 2005, reviews his previous interviews and publications and provides updated comments from a current perspective.
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