Carnegie Moscow Center
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Political analyst Sergei Markov and Carnegie Senior Associate Michael McFaul debated Russian democracy and the causes of poor U.S.-Russian relations.
Islamist parties will play a significant role in Middle Eastern and North African countries experiencing political openings. Saad Eddine el-Othmani, General Secretary of the Moroccan Party of Justice and Development, discussed his party's efforts to promote democracy and development in Morocco in a talk moderated by Thomas Carothers with comments by Nathan Brown at the Carnegie Endowment.
While American companies would still like to see an improvement in Ukraine's energy sector, they admit that the climate has improved in recent years. Ukraine would like to see an even larger American interest in Ukrainian energy.
Bakhtiyar Babadjanov, of the Institute of Oriental Studies in Tashkent, discussed the ideas and structure of the radical Islamic political group Akramia.
The security situation in Azerbaijan is strained because of the country’s antagonistic neighbors: Turkmenistan, Iran, and Armenia. Russian policy in the South Caucasus also threatens regional stability. Azerbaijan's long border with Iran could cause problems should the confrontation over Iran’s nuclear program escalate.
2005 marked a turning point in the course of Russian foreign policy, certainly since 1991, and perhaps since 1985. One could call the current policy the antithesis of Gorbachev’s “new political thinking.” How has this change been reflected in the psychology of Russia's elite and the roots of its foreign policy?
Amr Hamzawy presented his Carnegie Paper “The Saudi Labyrinth: Evaluating the Current Political Opening." Jamal Khashoggi, Advisor to the Ambassador of the Royal Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and David Ottaway of the Washington Post served as discussants and Nathan Brown moderated.
Aleksei Kudrin, Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, discussed the outlook for the Russian economy and previewed the St. Petersburg G-8 summit.
Nikolai Petrov, of the Carnegie Moscow Center, analyzed the recent elections to Russian regional parliaments and looked forward to national elections in.