The analysis is grounded in empirical research on the Russian military going back to 1994, and is organized around four major issues:
· The involvement of the military in the political struggle for power;
· the revision of key strategic guidelines for modernizing the military as compared to scale of funding for the Armed Forces and the scale of accumulated problems in logistics, procurement, and manpower;
· the political emphasis on strengthening the nuclear deterrent and the expected impact of the new programs on the status of strategic forces;
the possible utilization of the available capabilities for projecting military power to secure and advance Russia’s interests in the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Moscow has begun to feel safe from terrorism since summer 2004, and St. Petersburg has never had it; the first attack on this train in 2007 appeared to be not that serious, so this tragedy has come as a real shock.
The draft is centered on the proposition for setting a mechanism (consultations and conferences) that would address the problem of inter-state conflicts escalating to wars.
BBC Rusian Service called me in the afternoon of September 17 to partake in a live debate on the impact of the unexpected decision of the Obama administration to cancel the deployment of a strategiic radar in the Czech Republic and ten interceptor-missiles in Poland.
Arms control may be an area where Russia-US agreements are both necessary and possible, but this agenda generally belongs to the Cold War era.
Russia's policy in the Arctic looks quite logical and consistent in the eyes of its own policy-makers, but perhaps less so in the opinioin of the Northern neighbours.
Russian authorities have lifted the status of 'counter-terrorist operation' in Chechnya, which is a victory more for Ramzan kadyrov than for Vladimir Putin.
Russian authorities have lifted the status of 'counter-terrorist operation' in Chechnya, which is a victory more for Ramzan kadyrov than for Vladimir Putin.
The main question was about whether NATO should take notice of the fact that it was named as one of the main sources of threat - and reasons for Russian rearmament.
Russia's foreign policy menu for 2009 - was the topic of the seminar, presented by Konstantin Eggert, Igor Zevelev and myself.
The Geneva Center for Security Studies engaged me for giving lectures to two parallel courses.
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