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Russia on the offense
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Russia through Western-colored glasses
The Boston Globe
; RUSSIA UNDER WESTERN EYES From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum By Martin Malia Belknap/Harvard University Press, 514 pp., $35 For centuries, observers of Russia have fallen into two grand camps: those who view the vast country as "Eastern," the land of Scythians and Tatars, of
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Out to do business, or out for a scrap? Russia and the West.(Scratchy times for Russia and the West)
The Economist (US)
; Under Vladimir Putin, Russia is once again flexing muscles and scoring diplomatic points--but it is not always clear what purpose this serves ACROSS a broad, cold front of disagreements--over Kosovo, the expansion of NATO, the durability of arms-control agreements, America's plans for new missile
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Russia's self-isolation.(Brief Article)
The Economist (US)
; If Russia wants to be a European power, it should play by Europe's rules DOES Russia have a future in Europe? A country of Russia's sheer size, beset with problems on such a scale, from its rusting nuclear warheads to its fissile politics, its fractious republics and its fragmenting economy, can
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The devil that Russia needn't know. (Gennai Zyunganov)(Column)
U.S. News & World Report
; How far has Russia come since 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed and a fitful transition toward a market economy began? One yardstick is the performance of Russia's stock market, which has prospered as formerly state-owned enterprises have been transferred to private hands. Even so, the stock
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A benign growth; Russia's Muslims.(Muslims make up 10-15% of Russians)
The Economist (US)
; Russia's fastest-growing religious group is its Muslims. But they are not much like their counterparts in other countries MUSLIMS in Russia--or at least the politically active among them--are rejoicing. On March 30th a human-rights case that had become a touchstone of Muslim concerns was
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