Carnegie Moscow Center
Women in modern Russia still face a number of challenges, but Russian women and their Soviet counterparts have always been rather independent and active.
The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has lost popular and political credibility, and this will likely result in the regime’s removal from power.
As Russians move toward the long New Year and Christmas holidays, they hope that the coming year will offer positive change.
Tens of thousands of Russians took to the street in protest over voter fraud allegations in the country’s parliamentary elections. It remains to be seen what this public response and the election results will mean for the country’s future.
By its example, the 1917 Russian Bolshevik Revolution encouraged the West to improve the labor conditions of their workers in the hopes of averting similar social unrest in their own countries.
A settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is unlikely in the near term; instead, the world is likely to see, at best, conflict management rather than conflict resolution in the near future.
Today, the big economic risks come not from the United States, but from European countries struggling to figure out a long term solution to sovereign debt and the weak institutional underpinnings of the euro.
Russians should recognize the significance of the popular victory over the August 1991 putsch, which prevented hard-line conservatives from reestablishing authoritarian rule and led to the end of communism in the country.
China and Russia share significant common ground on a number of issues, but a number of concerns still shape Sino-Russian bilateral relations.
On June 22, 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Union, beginning what Russians call the Great Patriotic War. 70 years later, the history of the war still remains incomplete.