Russia (open access)

Russia

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Date: May 24, 2005
Creator: Goldman, Stuart D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Russia (open access)

Russia

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Date: May 5, 2005
Creator: Goldman, Stuart D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Russia (open access)

Russia

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Date: May 29, 2003
Creator: Goldman, Stuart D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Russia (open access)

Russia

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Date: May 22, 2002
Creator: Goldman, Stuart D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Russia (open access)

Russia

Vladimir Putin won reelection as Russian President in March 2004, in an exercise in “managed democracy” in which he took 71% of the vote and faced no serious competition. The pro-Putin Unified Russia party similarly swept the parliamentary election in December 2003 and controls more than two-thirds of the seats in the Duma. Also in March, Putin replaced long-serving Premier Kasyanov with a little-known bureaucrat, Mikhail Fradkov, indicating Putin’s intent to take the reins of government even more completely into his own hands. Putin’s twin priorities remain to revive the economy and strengthen the state. He has brought TV and radio under tight state control and virtually eliminated effective political opposition. Federal forces have suppressed large-scale military resistance in Chechnya but face the prospect of prolonged guerilla warfare and terrorist-style attacks.
Date: May 4, 2006
Creator: Goldman, Stuart D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Soviet Invasion and U.S. Response (open access)

Afghanistan: Soviet Invasion and U.S. Response

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has raised a number of serious issues and choices for the United States. The train of events seem likely to have an important influence on overall American foreign policy in the 1980s. Reassessment of Soviet motives and of U.S. roles in the world are already in progress. Emerging American attitudes, in turn, will shape more specific policy decisions on several issues, which this issue brief discusses.
Date: May 2, 1980
Creator: Library of Congress. Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division.
System: The UNT Digital Library