Twenty-eight months later an account tells of an unopenable escape hatch, fatal disinformation, and official obsession with the secrets of 22 Granit cruise missiles
A British and a Russian specialist evaluate efforts towards establishing a productive relationship between the EU and Russia - a subject for the 20-21 March European Council.
Although Russia and the EU 'settled the Kaliningrad problem’ last November, Kaliningrad-ers remain anxious about freedom of transit and the course of the economy.
Review of an article in 'The World Today'. The writer awards Putin a long stay in office, possibly as dominant prime minister after his second term as president.
Review. The article reviewed finds flaws in current plans for energy collaboration, including both sides’ assumption that governments can effectively influence world prices.
Book review. Taking evidence from newly opened Soviet archives, the author argues that the 1930s purges cannot properly be studied without taking account of popular attitudes.
According to an article in a leading strategic studies journal, Europe has lost to the United States as Russia’s choice of a working partner (despite Iraq).
Co-operation between Russian crime investigators and US law-enforcement agencies operating out of the American embassy in Moscow has been hampered by insufficient training and, on the Russian side, political pressure, according to an American specialist.
Norwegian authors say ‘well-meaning’ Westerners overlook Russia’s capacity for action, and have complicated efforts to save its environment and natural resources.
Review. The article reviewed describes internal and external factors that continue to reinforce the determination of Transdniestria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh to stay ‘independent’.
An article in a leading American foreign affairs journal predicts that in a worst-case scenario based on existing trends and HIV figures, Russia’s economy in 2005 could be no larger than it is today.
