This Outlook elucidates the key elements of Russian president Dmitri Medvedev's modernization campaign, listing the areas where it is badly needed but has not been applied, and suggests tests for its implementation.

Russian president Dmitri Medvedev's rhetoric may portend a break with the policies of his predecessor, Vladimir Putin, but to prove he means what he says, Medvedev should begin redressing some of the most conspicuous miscarriages of justice that marked the Putin regime.

In his 2011 State of the Union Address, with six members of the Supreme Court present, President Obama famously attacked the Court’s Citizen’s United decision. At the center of Obama’s criticism was his completely erroneous contention that the decision opened the floodgates to foreign corporate spending in U.S. election campaigns.

Thank you, Madam Chairman.Among the very top priorities of U.S. foreign and security policies, I doubt there are many – if any – objectives more important than a free, democratic, stable, and prosperous Russia, at peace, in the long last, with its own people, its neighbors and the...

With the signing of a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russian president Dmitri Medvedev on April 8 and the convening of the Nuclear Security Summit on April 12-13 2010, President Barack Obama pressed ahead to fulfill his vision of nuclear disarmament. Yet the administration's bilateral approach has put the arms-control...

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?

Just like the leaders of the civil rights movement, Russia's activists seek to effect vast political and social change by personal and deeply moral effort fueled from within.