RUSSIA
HELPFUL
LINKS
Economist Country Briefing: Russia
A Timeline of Recent Chinese History (BBC)
Gov'ts on the Web: Russian Federation
BBC: Country Profile of Russia
The Other Russia (opposition website)
"Resurgent Russia" (BBC In Depth)
"Power and the Kremlin" (BBC In Depth)
"How to Make a Billion Dollars" (PBS: Frontline) website on Oligarchs
"Russia Today" -- Russian-perspective news satellite station
Governing Russia: Putin's Federal Dilemmas
New York Times series: Kremlin Rules
WGBH-BBC's The World 10/1 interview with David Remnick on Putin's decision to run for PM
"Russia: Spreading the Oil Wealth" (BusinessWeek Online) 10/3/05
"Putin pledges sweeping tax reform" (BBC) 3/19/04
"Putin, Yukos, & Russia" (The Globalist) 12/1/04
Select Journal Articles on Contemporary Russia (from Infotrac):
"Russian Parliament Passes Putin's Power Reform Bill in First Reading" (MosNews) 10/29/04
"Putin and the Oligarchs" (Foreign Affairs, Nov-Dec 2004)
"Inside Putin's Russia: Can There Be Reform without Democracy? -- a Review" (CEIP) 11/9/04
Russia hunts for funds for ailing health service. (Medicine And Health Policy).
Together but separate: Russia and Europe in the new century.
Flight From Freedom: What Russians Think and Want.
Russia's political party system as an impediment to democratization.