Vladimir Putin and the future of the presidency, Graeme Gill; nationalism and democratization in post-Communist Russia, David W. Lowell; just the rhetoric of reform? - the "new planning" in the politics of the Yeltsin era, Anthony Phillips; farwell to oligarchs? - presidency and business tycoons in comntemporary Russia, Yuri Tsyganov; Russian industrial privatization - strategy and outcome, Stephen Fortescue; Russia's debt problem and the financial constraints of reform, Vladimir Tikhomirov; vegetative adaption, oil prices and the current economic situation in Russia, Gennadi Kazakevitch; Russia compared to Soviet and world standards, Geoffrey Jukes; Russian military power at the turn of the millennium, Alexy Muraviev; personality, politics and power - foreign policy under Putin, Peter Shearman.
