Carnegie Moscow Center
In the wake of the Arab Spring, some countries, like Egypt and Tunisia, are in the process of a real democratic transformation, while others, like Libya, Yemen, and Syria, are in deep crisis.
April 12 marked the 50th anniversary of the first manned spaceflight. Today, space exploration offers the promise of new technologies and solutions to critical challenges facing the international community.
While the abolition of serfdom in Russia in 1861 marked the first stage in Russia’s democratic transformation, more remains to be done.
Prominent Russian political scientist Georgy Arbatov, founder and first director of the Institute for U.S. and Canada Studies and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, passed away on October 1, 2010. He was 87.