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The New York Times: President Medvedev Doesn’t Seize the Moment

Details: 13 September 2011

Last weekend in Russia was marred by a horrible tragedy. An airplane crash killed a hockey team from Yaroslavl. By coincidence, it was Yaroslavl, where a political forum hosted by the Russian president, was taking place.

Details: Events

Experts to Discuss Upcoming Elections in Russia: Is There a Chance for the Political Opposition?

Details: 09 September 2011

Boris Nemtsov, Evgeniya Chirikova and Andranik Migranyan will be speaking on the discussion panel “Russian Elections 2011-12: Is there a Chance for the Political Opposition?’’ The event is set for September 16th at the Faculty House, Columbia University. Institute of Modern Russia and the Harriman Institute (CU) are co-hosting the event.

Details: Nation

Ariel Cohen: Russia Squanders Its Chance at Democracy

Details: 08 September 2011

In his recent article in National Interest, Ariel Cohen, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, discusses the opportunities that went by the wayside of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s road to democracy.

Details: Nation

Siege without a Victor: Seven Years after the Tragedy at Beslan

Details: 07 September 2011

On Sept. 1, 2004, a primary school in the North Ossetian locality of Beslan was taken by a terrorists group demanding that Russia stop the war in Chechnya and immediately withdraw its troops. After three days of siege, Russian forces took the school by storm. As a result, more than 300 people, most of them children, were killed. Today, seven years later, the Beslan siege is still remembered as one of the cruelest terrorist attacks leading to one of the most controversial government actions in modern Russian history.

Details: Politics

Leon Aron: Great Revolutions Evolve in Cycles

Details: 01 September 2011; Caterina Innocente

On the 20th anniversary of the August Coup in the USSR, Leon Aron, Director of Russian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, talked with Caterina Innocente about his vision of the political prospects for modern Russia.

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