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Important Visit in Deepening Bilateral Cooperation
FENG Shaolei
11:49 16/03/2010 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s first visit to India on 11-12 March is a major event in Russian-Indian relations of the past four years.
Collision courses of Russian modernization
Piotr DUTKIEWICZ
11:53 16/03/2010 “United Russia” officially labeled itself “conservative” last December. This ideological doctrine is quite remarkable in the home of the Bolshevik Revolution. Moreover, it obviously contrasts with President Medvedev’s blueprint on modernization.
Ukraine's new vision on European security architecture
Alexander RAHR
12:00 12/03/2010 Against the background of the Ukrainian Presidential elections and the election of Viktor Yanukovich the Centre Russia/Eurasia in collaboration with the Ukrainian foundation "United World" organized a conference on the topic "The New European Architecture.

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	Collision courses of Russian modernization Piotr DUTKIEWICZ 11:53 16/03/2010 “United Russia” officially labeled itself “conservative” last December. This ideological doctrine is quite remarkable in the home of the Bolshevik Revolution. Moreover, it obviously contrasts with President Medvedev’s blueprint on modernization.
	Important Visit in Deepening Bilateral Cooperation FENG Shaolei 11:49 16/03/2010 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s first visit to India on 11-12 March is a major event in Russian-Indian relations of the past four years.
	Ukraine's new vision on European security architecture Alexander RAHR 12:00 12/03/2010 Against the background of the Ukrainian Presidential elections and the election of Viktor Yanukovich the Centre Russia/Eurasia in collaboration with the Ukrainian foundation "United World" organized a conference on the topic "The New European Architecture.
	New Belarus for new Russia: past, present, future 12:01 10/03/2010 At the moment of disintegration of the Soviet Union Belarus of the time didn’t in any way stand out for Russia from the general circle of the states of the postSoviet space. Democratic movement there was rather moderated (and had basically character of ecological reaction to Chernobyl accident), antisovietism and anticommunism were limited to a narrow layer of intelligence and separate representatives of culture.
	Echoes of the Past Wars Sergey KARAGANOV 18:44 09/03/2010 Last year was quite eventful in military-strategic terms. Russia and the United States remained locked in tough-going talks over strategic arms reductions. The odds are they may soon deliver a treaty. Then there will follow a no easy period of ratification in the United States.
	Two years into Dmitry Medvedev’s first term as Russian president: changes in Russia’s foreign policy Thomas GOMART 11:57 04/03/2010 Thomas Gomart, exclusive interview with RIA Novosti.
	New tension, new troubles Leszek Miller 12:13 03/03/2010 President Obama is understandably more interested in securing Russian cooperation on Iran and Afghanistan than the US missile defence shield. From Washington’s point of view, it is not Medvedev and Putin that pose a threat to the West, but rather Islamic theocratic regimes and terrorism.
	Paths of Modernization of Russia Toby Gati 12:41 25/02/2010 "If modernization is more than a slogan, then one must think about how to implement it", - Toby Gati’s said in her interview with Voice of America.
	Why Europe needs a new security pact Sergey KARAGANOV 13:07 19/02/2010 Let me share some of the thinking that lies behind the Russian idea of the necessity of a new European security architecture. I cannot not claim authorship of the idea — that belongs rightly to President Dmitri Medvedev — but I have been a proponent of the concept for many years.
	Rethinking the Resetting Feng Shaolei 11:40 10/02/2010 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have declared that the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) is ready and is expected to be signed in the near future.
	The past year and the upcoming decade Sergey KARAGANOV 13:10 09/02/2010 The year 2009 brought closure to the first decade of the 21st century and – largely although not completely – to the entire post-Cold-War period in Euro-Atlantic politics. It also closed an era in Russian domestic and foreign policies marked by the country’s recovery as a state and a steep strengthening of its international and political positions.
	Permafrost in Russia Reinhard Krumm 15:33 03/02/2010 A new thaw in the Kremlin: President Medvedev wants to rebuild the country contrary to the policy of Putin and the power of tradition.
	Medvedev, Obama should Beware of the START Pitfalls Ariel Cohen 12:15 01/02/2010 Washington and Moscow will restart talks with Washington on a new arms control treaty on Monday February 1. START was one of the very few foreign policy issued mentioned by President Obama in his State of the Union Address on January 27th.
	The U.S.-Russian reset – one year later Angela Stent 13:13 29/01/2010 It has been a year since President Obama came into office and six months since the summit in Moscow. The atmospherics in the US-Russian relationship have improved over the last year.
	Obama is by no means perfect, but he represents an enormous improvement over Bush Marshall Goldman 14:04 20/01/2010 A year since the official inauguration of 44th U.S. President Barak Obama.

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