On December 27, 2010, businessmen and entrepreneurs Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev received the maximum sentence, fourteen years, on patently fabricated charges. What is the impact of the sentencing on the Russian economy and foreign investments? How will the democratic opposition proceed in this political climate? And how should US policymakers deal with this new reality?

What does this election mean for Russia’s relations with the United States?

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U.S.-Russian relations are in bad shape. From the democratization and foreign policy orientation of the post-Soviet states to missile defense and energy and pipeline politics, more often than not Washington and Moscow find themselves on opposite sides. The Kremlin is...

U.S.-Russian relations are in bad shape. From the democratization and foreign policy orientation of the post-Soviet states to missile defense and energy and pipeline politics, more often than not Washington and Moscow find themselves on opposite sides. The Kremlin is blaming the United States for Georgia’s reckless attempt to reclaim...