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Re: Compromise still possible on anti-missiles Medvedev

2008-11-26T12:57:37Z

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Re: Statement by President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev

2008-11-14T18:55:15Z

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Russia threatens to deploy missiles - Nov 5 2008

2008-11-10T00:56:07Z

The Russian president has said Russia will station new missiles near the border with Poland if the US continues with its plan to deploy an anti-missile in the country. Neave Barker reports from Moscow.

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Inside Story - Russian military spending - 14 Oct 08 -Part 1

2008-10-19T08:52:11Z

Russian military spending has increased almost every year since 2000. Inside Story asks if Moscow is preparing for an arms race with the West or if it is just renovating its aging arsenal.

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Inside Story - Russian military spending - 14 Oct 08 -Part 2

2008-10-19T04:52:34Z

Russia military spending has increased almost every year since 2000. Inside Story asks if Moscow is preparing for an arms race with the West or if it is just renovating its aging arsenal.

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Al Jazeera talks to Dmitry Medvedev - 26 Aug 08

2008-10-29T21:29:29Z

Russia has recognised Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states.

The action is likely to inflame tensions with the West, but Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's president, told Al Jazeera that he has no intention of beginning a new Cold War.

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Re: USA is behind the Georgia - Russian War

2008-10-29T03:30:35Z

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Inside Story - Russia's global role - 09 Jun 08 - Part 2

2008-10-21T15:31:16Z

Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, has argued that the world financial crisis, global energy shortages and rising food prices offer Russia an opportunity to change its position in the world economic system. Inside Story asks if the US will allow Russia to become a major player on the international financial market.

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Russia's new president faces US on Iran

2009-01-03T04:55:42Z

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Eric Margolis: Medvedev will continue policy of opposing any US attack on Iran

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Katherine Stoner-Weiss - Medvedev's Plans for Russia

2008-10-15T09:29:55Z

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Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Associate Director for Research and Senior Research Scholar at CDDRL, discusses Russia’n President-elect Dmitry Medvedev and his plans for Russia.

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The Putin-to-X Succession - Part I with panelists Pavel Podvig, M. Steven Fish, and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss. Kenneth Jowitt moderates.

This is the second panel of a three panel event on Political Succession in Russia hosted by the Hoover Institution.

Kathryn Stoner-Weiss is Associate Director for Research and Senior Research Scholar at CDDRL. Prior to coming to Stanford, she was on the faculty at Princeton University for nine years, jointly appointed to the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School for International and Public Affairs. At Princeton she received the Ralph O. Glendinning Preceptorship awarded to outstanding junior faculty. She also served as a Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at McGill University. She has held fellowships at Harvard University as well as the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC.

In addition to many articles and book chapters on contemporary Russia, she is the author of two single authored books: Resisting the State: Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia (Cambridge, 2006), and Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance (Princeton, 1997). She is also co-editor (along with Michael McFaul) of After the Collapse of Communism: Comparative Lessons of Transitions (Cambridge, 2004).

She received a BA and MA in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in Government from Harvard University. She speaks Russian and French.

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Russia on Foreign Policy - The Next Four Years

2008-10-16T15:30:58Z

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Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Associate Director for Research and Senior Research Scholar at CDDRL, discusses Russian President-elect Dmitry Medvedev's approach to foreign policy, and speculates on the course of Russia's government over the next four years.

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The Putin-to-X Succession - Part I with panelists Pavel Podvig, M. Steven Fish, and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss. Kenneth Jowitt moderates.

This is the second panel of a three panel event on Political Succession in Russia hosted by the Hoover Institution.

She received a BA and MA in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in Government from Harvard University. She speaks Russian and French.

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Steven Fish - Why Autocracy Thrives In Russia

2008-10-15T09:29:49Z

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UC Berkeley Professor of Political Science M. Steven Fish discusses why autocracy thrives in Russia and why it continues to be popular among the general public.

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The Putin-to-X Succession - Part I with panelists Pavel Podvig, M. Steven Fish, and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss. Kenneth Jowitt moderates.

This is the second panel of a three panel event on Political Succession in Russia hosted by the Hoover Institution.

M. Steven Fish is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and teaching interests include post-Soviet politics, democratization and regime change, and general comparative politics. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses on these topics.

He is the author of Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2005), winner of best book prize in the Comparative Democratization section for the American Political Science Association, and, Democracy from Scratch: Opposition and Regime in the New Russian Revolution (Princeton University Press, 1995) and a coauthor of Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2001).

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Russia's New President: Putin-Lite?

2008-10-14T11:31:19Z

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Russian scholar Nikolay Petrov discusses the relationship between Russia's next president, Dimitry Medvedev, and its current, outgoing one, Vadimir Putin. This program was recorded prior to Russia's March 2 Presidential election.

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Carnegie Moscow Center Scholar-in-Residence Nikolai Petrov discussed Russia's March 2 presidential elections, which are widely expected to usher in the rule of Dmitry Medvedev, President Putin's favored successor.

Petrov provided analysis of the Putin regime's political structure, the likely policy trajectory of a Medvedev administration, and the problems that Russia's new president will have to tackle. He concluded that Russian politics will change substantially even in the next six months as key Kremlin factions etch out their role in the next administration.

Carnegie's James F. Collins moderated the event - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Nikolay Petrov served as chief organizer of the Analysis and Forecast Division in the Supreme Soviet (1991-1992), advisor and analyst for the Russian Presidential Administration (1994-1995), and a scholar at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies (1993-1994) and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (1994). From 1996 to 2000, Petrov worked at the Carnegie Moscow Center as a senior consultant and scholar-in-residence.

He later lectured at Macalester College in the United States. Petrov earned his Ph.D. from Moscow State University. Petrov is also a senior research associate with the Institute of Geography at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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Inside Story - Russia's new president - 03 March 08 - Pt.2

2008-10-22T21:29:34Z

The results are in, and Vladimir Putin's hand-picked successor, Dmitry Medvedev, has won the Russian presidential elections in a landslide.

Medvedev has promised to carry on Putin's legacy. He says he wants Putin to be his prime minister, but just how much power the president will retain once he leaves office is unclear.

Other candidates in the race are protesting the results, claiming they were not allowed equal media coverage before the vote.

Election monitors are also saying the vote was not fair.

Has the election and results been a blow to Russian democracy? And how will Medvedev tackle the big issues facing the country?

Inside Story, with presenter Sami Zeidan, looks at the man who will be president and his vision for Russia.

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Inside Story - Russia's new president - 03 March 08 - Pt. 2

2008-10-22T21:29:33Z

The results are in, and Vladimir Putin's hand-picked successor, Dmitry Medvedev, has won the Russian presidential elections in a landslide.

Medvedev has promised to carry on Putin's legacy. He says he wants Putin to be his prime minister, but just how much power the president will retain once he leaves office is unclear.

Other candidates in the race are protesting the results, claiming they were not allowed equal media coverage before the vote.

Election monitors are also saying the vote was not fair.

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Charlie Rose - Russia

2008-10-24T21:30:58Z

Dmitry Medvedev was officially elected as the President of Russia in elections over the weekend. Medvedev, who was backed by Vladimir Putin to succeed him as president, won about 70 per cent of Sunday's vote according to official results. I spoke with three long time observers of Russia last Friday - former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Editor of the New Yorker David Remnick and Former US ambassador to Russia Thomas Pickering. - about who is Medvedev, what his election means for Russia and the opportunities for the next American president.

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