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•	RAS #40 ~ November 2007 THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS IN RUSSIA: Guest contributor: Leonid Khotin Is there light at the end of the tunnel? • Evolution toward legality? • Fast-growing firms • SOCIETY: In defense of Russian men • Pension reform • POLITICS: Official "anti-fascism" • Putin's gubernatorial appointments • FOREIGN POLICY: Russian public opinion on nuclear relations with Iran • HISTORY: Was Stalin a Russian nationalist? • The impact of Khrushchev's de-Stalinization on China • FEEDBACK: End of Russia's trade surplus?
•	RAS #39 ~ June 2007 ECOLOGY: Russia and global warming • ECONOMY: The Russian economy in 2006 A Russian managerial model? • POLITICS: RUSSIAN NATIONALISM UNDER PUTIN: The mainstreaming of extreme nationalism • Skinheads under pressure • Football fans and the ultra-right SOCIETY: Post-Soviet dedovshchina • Russian social stratification • DEMOGRAPHY: Demographic forecasts for St. Petersburg • RUSSIA AND CHINA: China in Russian eyes 11. Comparing Stalinism and Maoism • GEORGIA / ABKHAZIA: The hardest word • FEEDBACK
•	RAS #38 ~ March 2007 FOCUS ON TATARSTAN Moscow Kazan: a new crisis? • The alphabet issue: linguistic aspects • POLITICS: Yet again on the siloviki • Islam and politics in the northwest Caucasus • ECONOMY: Oligarchic capitalism • The Russian metal industry • RUSSIA AND ITS NEIGHBORS: Russia -- Azerbaijan • Russia -- Belarus • Russia -- Poland: opinion data • HISTORY: Honored Chekists • LANGUAGE: Soviet linguists and Chinese script reform
•	RAS #37 ~ February 2007 POLITICS: “Siloviki”: a complementary interpretation • ECONOMY: FOCUS ON POVERTY: Poverty: survey results • Economic conditions in Chechnya • ECOLOGY: Is global warming good for Russia? • ETHNOGRAPHY: THE CIRCASSIANS: Who are the Circassians? • The issue of the Circassian “genocide” • Circassian “Zionism” • RUSSIA AND ITS NEIGHBORS: Tajikistan and the drug trade • HISTORY: Remembering 1956 • The story of Greenham Common • SOCIAL THOUGHT: Bogdanov and the cult of the engineer • FOLLOW-UP: Piontkovsky
•	RAS #36 ~ October 2006 POLITICS: Siloviki and businessmen in Russia's elite • LAW: The Constitutional Court: counterweight to authoritarianism? • SOCIETY: Life and health of young people in Karelia • ETHNOGRAPHY: Return of the chador? • HISTORY: Khrushchev memoirs: Volume 2 appears • The Western left and the USSR • PSYCHOLOGY: Bernstein: outliving Pavlov's legacy • Mikhailov: a veteran reflects • RUSSIAN LANGUAGE: The Creolization of Russian? • CORRESPONDENCE: More on alphabets • Battle cries
•	RAS #35 ~ April 2006 POLITICS: The future of opposition • ECONOMY: Market integration • EPIDEMIOLOGY: Haemorrhagic fever moves north • RUSSIA AND THE WORLD: America's new map of the world: implications for Russia • China's map of the world: Russia as "older sister" • China in Central Asia • HISTORICAL ESSAY: Stalin and Israel • REFLECTIONS: Radioactive scavengers • CORRESPONDENCE
•	RAS #34 ~ March 2006 POLITICS: Developments in radical nationalism • ECONOMY: Oil and growth • Oil and banking • Forestry reform • EPIDEMIOLOGY: Malaria makes a comeback • AIDS in the South Caucasus LAW: The Constitutional Court versus the Procuracy • RUSSIA AND ITS NEIGHBORS: Nuclear energy cooperation • Irina Isakova, Russian Governance in the 21st Century: Geo-strategy, Geopolitics and Governance Reviewed by Douglas Blum
•	RAS #33 ~ February 2006 POLITICS: Putin's court • The Yukos affair and Putin's kandidat dissertation • FEDERAL-REGIONAL RELATIONS: Review. Peter Reddaway and Robert W. Orttung, eds. The Dynamics of Russian Politics. Vol. 2 • AGRICULTURE: Russian agriculture downsized • End of the peasantry? • ETHNIC RELATIONS: Finno-Ugric peoples • Mari rights under threat? • RUSSIA AND THE WORLD: Defining new priorities in relations with Russia By Dr. Irina Isakova • Review. "Illicit" by Moises Naim • FOLLOW-UP: Exorcising the "Siberian Curse" • Hizb ut-Tahrir: Victims of Persecution?
•	RAS #32 ~ November 2005 POLITICS: The Yukos affair and business- state relations: an unstable equilibrium • Local government reform • Ministerial turnover • LAW: Antiterrorist law • No intent to incite hatred? • SOCIETY: Roots mania • Shifting perceptions of the past • ETHNIC RELATIONS: Ethno-religious conflict in Dagestan • REMINISCENCE: Solya • CORRESPONDENCE: Khrushchev's shoe • Moscow's realpolitik • CORRECTIONS: The Assisted Migration Scheme
•	RAS #31 ~ October 2005 Introduction • Summary of the book • Summary of responses published in EKO • "Patriots of the North": summary of article by Prof. Pound • My own response to the book • Further notes on global warming and Siberia • REMINISCENCE: A Chekist in the family
•	RAS #30 ~ March 2005 HISTORY: KHRUSHCHEV: A new edition of the memoirs • Khrushchev as populist • Did he bang his shoe? • POLITICS: Why do people vote for Putin? • The politics of regional enlargement LAW: Hate crimes • DEMOGRAPHY: Assessing the 2002 Russian population census • RUSSIA AND THE WORLD: Moscow's realpolitik • Further on the Ukrainian elections • Matthew Maly. Ukraine's defining moment • CORRESPONDENCE ON MAT
•	RAS #29 ~ January 2005 Special Issue: Chechnya & Russia-West Relations: Introducing the symposium • The contributors • Vladimir Pastukhov: Beslan: Notes in the Aftermath of Tragedy • Valery Tishkov: Terror and Its Observers • John Russell: Basayev -- The Beast of Beslan? • P. Terrence Hopmann: Russia, Chechnya, and the "War on Terror" • Stephen Shenfield: The Northern Ireland Peace Settlement: What Relevance to Chechnya? • Valery Tishkov: Afterthoughts • Stephen Shenfield: Final Comments
•	RAS #28 ~ December 2004 MALE AND FEMALE: Domestic violence against women • Mat • OTHER SOCIAL TOPICS: A passive working class? • Drug addiction • Judicial studies • RUSSIA AND THE WORLD: Moscow's realpolitik • RUSSIA'S NEIGHBORS: Ukraine: democratic revolution or gangsters' quarrel? • Tajikistan: TB gathers pace • HISTORY: Was intra-party democratization possible under Khrushchev?
•	RAS #27 ~ November 2004 POLITICS: Russia's political equilibrium • The politics of philanthropy • ECONOMY: Growth -- but for how long? • Russian business and the union with Belarus • DEMOGRAPHY: Spatial development and immigration policy • ECOLOGY: The dying Amur • SOCIETY: Dedovshchina • Penal reform• REMINISCENCE: First consultation
•	RAS #26 ~ November 2004 Special Issue: The Grishfeld File: Introducing the issue • Working together for peace: a personal account of my cooperation with Viktor Girshfeld • DOCUMENTS: Autobiographical statement • Stephen Shenfield. The USSR: Viktor Girshfeld and the Concept of "Sufficient Defense" • The first Colonel X interview • The second Colonel X interview • Viktor Olenev. The Threat From Above: The USSR and the Militarization of Space • CORRESPONDENCE: Tomila Lankina. Beslan and the Osset-Ingush conflict
•	RAS #25 ~ October 2004 Introducing the issue • BESLAN AND THE CHECHEN CONFLICT: Book notice: life in a war-torn society • The aftermath of Beslan: the local dimension • Beslan and corruption • POLITICS: FOCUS ON PRESIDENTIAL POWER: • Presidential power and the regions • Presidential decrees in Russia and Ukraine • ECONOMY: Effects of Russian accession to the WTO • The bankruptcy business • DEMOGRAPHY: The death rate of middle-aged men • RUSSIA AND THE WORLD: Russian arms exports • Transnational matchmaking • HISTORY: The Tatar Enlightenment • Stalin's death camps • RUSSIAN LANGUAGE: Equal rights for the letter "YO"! • Finger without a name • REMINISCENCES: Stories of an Esperantist
•	RAS #24 ~ May 2004: SPECIAL ISSUE THE GEORGIAN-ABKHAZ CONFLICT: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE: Introducing the issue • Historical synopsis • CURRENT PROSPECTS: The Rose Revolution and the Georgian-Abkhazian Conflict: Light at the End of the Tunnel? By Rachel Clogg, Conciliation Resources (London) • Press Release from Conciliation Resources • Russia's policy toward Abkhazia By Irina Isakova, independent analyst (London) • HISTORY: How Far Back Does the Conflict Go? • Lorik Marshania: On the Other Side • The Peace Train
•	RAS #23 ~ March 2004: POLITICS: Patrick Armstrong. The fallacy of neo-Kremlinology • Putin's relations with regional leaders • ECONOMICS: Bringing Western economics to Russia • SOCIETY: The developmental education movement • Daniil Granin on the decline of altruism • ECOLOGY: Soil erosion • Endangered tigers -- and endangering crabs • MILITARY AFFAIRS: Russia's new military program • The mouse flies high • RUSSIA AND ITS NEIGHBORS: Russia--Kazakhstan: border adjustments? • HISTORY: The man who disagreed with Stalin
•	RAS #22 ~ February 2004 POLITICS: Political potential of the skinhead movement • Relations between regional officials and organized crime • SOCIETY: The position of labor in Russia • ECOLOGY: Forest fires • FOREIGN POLICY: Russian public opinion on the "anti-terrorist" alliance • RUSSIA AND ITS NEIGHBORS: Lukashenka's Belarus: Not So Bad? • ARCHIVE: Notes of an interview with Natalya Narochnitskaya • The "Grazhdanin" society: ethnic minorities in Moscow • CORRESPONDENCE
•	RAS #21 ~ January 2004 Introduction • Background briefing: TB; history of TB; MDR TB; DOTS and DOTS-PLUS; DOTS and Russian physicians; note on sources • ASSESSMENTS BY RUSSIAN SPECIALISTS: Tuberculosis Infection in the Russian Federation, 1955--2010 • A Study of the Incidence of Tuberculosis in the Primorsky Territory • The Trend in Basic Epidemiological Indicators for Tuberculosis in Primorye Over the Period 1992--2002 • EDITOR'S ASSESSMENT: Tuberculosis in Russia: past, present, and future trends • THE WORK OF WESTERN NGO'S IN THE REGION: Donna J. Barry, NP MPH, Treating Multi-Drug • Resistant Tuberculosis in Russia: The Experience of Partners in Health • Central Asia: Tuberculosis in the Aral Sea region • TB IN THE CAUCASUS: Notes on TB in Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia • RUSSIAN BOOKS ON TUBERCULOSIS: TB in Russia's penal system • The doctor's advice • TUNERCULOSIS AND CULTURE: Chekhov and tuberculosis
•	RAS #20 ~ January 2004 POLITICS: Post-Soviet "feudalism" • Putin's generals • ECONOMICS: A new Russian economic geography? • Kaliningrad: not a basket case • SOCIETY: How children become homeless • ECOLOGY: Russia and the Kyoto Protocol • RUSSIA AND ITS NEIGHBORS: The idea of a Russia-China-India alliance • Tajik migrant workers • HISTORY: The Soviet command economy: two views • FROM MY ARCHIVE: Notes on a red-brown rally
•	RAS #19 ~ May 2003 POLITICS: Women and politics in Russia • Business and politics in middle Siberia • ECONOMIC STATISTICS: Problems of economic statistics • Output trends for industrial products • DEMOGRAPHY: The census in Chechnya • Soviet war losses • RUSSIA AND ITS NEIGHBORS: Military cooperation within the CIS • POLITICAL ISLAM: Political Islam in Dagestan • The ideology of Hizbal-Tahrir • PHILOSOPHY: Russian reactions to Nietzsche • FOLLOW-UP: Depleted uranium munitions in the Gulf wars • New book on East-West cultural exchanges
•	RAS #18 ~ April 2003 POLITICS: Regional parliaments • Feedback: Russian public opinion and human rights • ECONOMY: Federal Districts and Economic Regions • The former state banks • DEMOGRAPHY: Bias in the 2002 population census • SOCIETY: Threats to ethnic and religious minorities • St. Petersburg cafés • RUSSIA AND ITS NEIGHBORS: Central Asia realigns • Origins of the war in Iraq • HISTORY: Book review William Taubman. Khrushchev: The Man and His Era • Obituary: David Azarian • Call for papers • Note of correction
•	RAS #17, March 2003 Politics • Economy • Health And Healthcare • Ethnic Relations • Russia And Its Neighbors • History • Follow-up
•	RAS #16, February 2003 Politics • Siberia • Local Government • Child Trade • Prostitution • Military Reform • Internet • Caspian • Siberia • EU • Belarus • Afghanistan • Cold War • Cold War
•	RAS #15, January 2003 POLITICS: Women in the Duma • Business lobbying: a two-way street? • ECONOMY: Yevgeny Yasin on Russia's economic prospects • SOCIETY: WHAT RUSSIAN YOUNG PEOPLE WANT: Occupational aspirations • Going to the movies • ETHNIC RELATIONS: Titular dominance in Russia's autonomies • Antisemitism • RUSSIA AND ITS NEIGHBORS: FOCUS ON NORTHEAST ASIA • Introduction to the section • Russia and China: not so very different after all? • Russia-Mongolia: latent territorial issues • HISTORY: How big was Stalin's Gulag? • The Orlov file: Edward Gazur, Alexander Orlov: The FBI's KGB General Review by John Wilhelm
•	RAS #14, December 2002 ~ Special Issue On Russian Science Russian Science & U.S. Military • Brain Drain • Foreign Support • Nuclear Power • Science Fiction • Philosophy of Science • Environment • Follow-up on Criminal Economy
•	RAS #13, November 2002 ECOLOGY/ SECURITY: Buried chemical weapons ~ THE CRIMINAL ECONOMY: How big is the criminal economy in Russia? Protection money: extortion or "shadow taxes"? ~ SOCIETY: The social status of military officers ~ RUSSIA AND ITS NEIGHBORS: Russia-EU: the institutional dimension ~ Rebuilding failed states: Georgia, Uganda, Tajikistan ~ Islam in the CIS ~ ETHNIC MINORITIES: Altai: What was and is Burkhanism? ~ HISTORY: Losev: philosopher of myth
•	RAS #12, November 2002 PROVINCIAL POLITICS: Inter-provincial relations in Siberia ~ Democratic tendencies in three Russian provinces ~ RUSSIAN NATIONALISM: Eurasianism: Dugin's new program ~ Nazism in Russia ~ ECONOMY: Defense industry: the regional dimension ~ SOCIETY: Religion: The growth of Christian pluralism ~ Alternative civilian service ~ RUSSIA AND ITS NEIGHBORS: THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE IN THE NEWLY INDEPENDENT STATES: Russian language rights and the 2001 Ukrainian census ~ Russian language education in the NIS ~ HISTORY: EARLY STALINISM: Stakhanovism: Stalin's "Great Leap Forward" ~ The Ciliga memoir: In the land of the great lie ~ PUBLICATION NOTICES: The Soviet military in Israeli-Arab wars ~ Rethinking development assistance
•	RAS #11, August 2002 TOWARDS THE RULE OF LAW? Taking anti-extremism to extremes ~ Business-government relations and the law ~ POLITICS: Russians are not undemocratic ~ ECONOMY Innovation at Russian enterprises ~ Labor mobility ~ RUSSIA AND ITS NEIGHBORS: Russia-USA: The Chukotka-Alaska connection ~ Russia-China: The Chinese community in Moscow ~ Islamists in Uzbekistan ~ HISTORICAL ESSAY: Western communists and Soviet life
•	RAS #10, July 2002 ECONOMICS: More than money: Small technology spin-offs of the WMD complex ~ Putin's agrarian policy ~ Elite opinion on foreign economic relations ~ POLITICS: FEDERAL DISTRICTS ~ The federal districts: the security dimension ~ Federal district profiles ~ POLITICS: ISLAM AND EURASIANISM: Are Russia's Moslems a community? ~ Official Eurasianism in Orenburg Province ~ Eurasianists versus Eurasianists ~ RUSSIA AND ITS NEIGHBORS: THE NORTHERN EUROPEAN REGION: The Northern European Initiative ~ Russian-Norwegian cooperation for nuclear safety ~ HISTORY: The debate about the nature of "war communism" ~ RECOMMENDED SOURCES
•	RAS #9, June 2002 POLITICS: Whither Russia? Zaslavskaya's scenarios for Russia's future ~ Fiddling while Rome burns: The battle over Slavneft ~ The extreme right: decline or transmutation? ~ SOCIETY: Lawlessness above and below ~ The changing shape of the Russian media ~ ECOLOGY: Central Asia: melting of the glaciers ~ RUSSIA AND ITS NEIGHBORS: Ukrainian public opinion on Russia and the US ~ Russia--Kazakhstan--China: Struggle for the Irtysh ~ PSYCHOANALYSIS: Book review; Psychoanalyzing Russian nationalism ~ HISTORY: The name-glorifiers ~ Youth against Stalin ~ CULTURE: Tuvan music
•	RAS #8, May 2002 ECONOMY: Russia's economic rebound: scale, causes, prospects ~ POLITICS: The Federal Districts: two years on ~ The fracturing of the executive branch ~ Are the media less free in the ethnic republics? ~ National extremism: rise of the "young wolves" ~ ETHNIC RELATIONS: An old idea reborn: extra-territorial ethnic autonomy ~ ECOLOGY: The nuclear accident at Tomsk-7 in 1993 ~ Testing the pollution intensification hypothesis ~ EPIDEMIOLOGY: Hiding from HIV/AIDS ~ RUSSIA AND ITS NEIGHBORS: How European do Russians feel? ~ Russia, Turkey, and the Southern Caucasus: Turkish views ~ HISTORY: Book review: Olga Velikanova on the Lenin cult
•	RAS #7, April 2002 ~ Special Chechnya Issue INTRODUCING THE ISSUE ~ THE SECOND RUSSO-CHECHEN WAR: Chechnya at a turning point ~ "Analyst." Russia's "new" strategy in Chechnya: an update ~ How to turn a local war into part of the international jihad ~ ORIGINS OF THE SECOND RUSSO-CHECHEN WAR: Chechnya between the wars (1996-1999) ~ Kidnapping and the origins of the second war [Part 2] ~ CHECHNYA: CONDITIONS OF SURVIVAL: A survey of living conditions ~ The ecological situation ~ Show me your ID! PUBLIC OPINION: Russian public opinion on Chechnya policy ~ LOOKING TO A BETTER FUTURE: Jabrail Gakayev's peace plan ~ Restoring healthcare and education in Chechnya ~ The Fund for Humanitarian Assistance to the Chechen Republic: How It Happened and What It Is About
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