RAS #42 ~ May 2008
SPECIAL ISSUE: THE CIRCASSIANS: Introduction • Section 1. Before the Russian conquest: * Stephen Shenfield: Who are the Circassians? • Ancient deities of the Circassians •  * Ibragim Yaganov: The traditional way of life of the Circassians • Section 2. Conquest and deportation: * John Colarusso and Walter Richmond: The conquest and deportation of the Circassians •  Book notice: "The Northwest Caucasus: Past. Present, Future," by Walter Richmond" • Book notice: "On the path to genocide: Russia’s 'final subjugation' of the Northwest Caucasus in comparative perspective," by Irma Kreiten • Songs of lament • Section 3. Circassians today: * Nusret Bas, MD: The Circassian diaspora in Turkey • * Matthew A. Light: Territorial restructuring in the Russian Federation and the future of the Circassian republics • * Fatima Tlisova: The war on Circassian nationalism • Concluding reflections: * Stephen Shenfield: Prospects and dangers of Circassian nationalism • DEBATE: Can journalism be independent?
 

RAS #41 ~ January 2008
POLITICS: Control of the media: a neo-Soviet model? • Funding of power agencies • Chechnya and the police • ECONOMICS: Russian economic prospects • Using reserves • Ownership concentration • LAW: Arbitration judges • HISTORY: STALIN’S CHILD VICTIMS: “Kulak” children • Life as a waif • PSYCHOLOGY: Thinking about thinking • Ethnic dreams
 

RAS #40 ~ November 2007
THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS IN RUSSIA: Guest contributor: Leonid Khotin Is there light at the end of the tunnel? • Evolution toward legality? • Fast-growing firms • SOCIETY: In defense of Russian men • Pension reform • POLITICS: Official "anti-fascism" • Putin's gubernatorial appointments • FOREIGN POLICY: Russian public opinion on nuclear relations with Iran • HISTORY: Was Stalin a Russian nationalist? • The impact of Khrushchev's de-Stalinization on China • FEEDBACK: End of Russia's trade surplus?
 

RAS #39 ~ June 2007
ECOLOGY: Russia and global warming • ECONOMY: The Russian economy in 2006
A Russian managerial model? •  POLITICS: RUSSIAN NATIONALISM UNDER PUTIN: The mainstreaming of extreme nationalism • Skinheads under pressure • Football fans and the ultra-right
SOCIETY: Post-Soviet dedovshchina • Russian social stratification • DEMOGRAPHY: Demographic forecasts for St. Petersburg • RUSSIA AND CHINA: China in Russian eyes
11. Comparing Stalinism and Maoism • GEORGIA / ABKHAZIA: The hardest word • FEEDBACK
 

RAS #38 ~ March 2007
FOCUS ON TATARSTAN
Moscow ­ Kazan: a new crisis? • The alphabet issue: linguistic aspects • POLITICS: Yet again on the siloviki • Islam and politics in the northwest Caucasus • ECONOMY: Oligarchic capitalism • The Russian metal industry • RUSSIA AND ITS NEIGHBORS: Russia -- Azerbaijan • Russia -- Belarus • Russia -- Poland: opinion data • HISTORY: Honored Chekists • LANGUAGE:  Soviet linguists and Chinese script reform
 

RAS #37 ~ February 2007
POLITICS: “Siloviki”: a complementary interpretation • ECONOMY: FOCUS ON POVERTY: Poverty: survey results • Economic conditions in Chechnya • ECOLOGY: Is global warming good for Russia? • ETHNOGRAPHY: THE CIRCASSIANS: Who are the Circassians? • The issue of the Circassian “genocide” • Circassian “Zionism” • RUSSIA AND ITS NEIGHBORS: Tajikistan and the drug trade • HISTORY: Remembering 1956 • The story of Greenham Common • SOCIAL THOUGHT: Bogdanov and the cult of the engineer • FOLLOW-UP: Piontkovsky
 

RAS #36 ~ October 2006
POLITICS: Siloviki and businessmen in Russia's elite • LAW: The Constitutional Court: counterweight to authoritarianism? • SOCIETY: Life and health of young people in Karelia • ETHNOGRAPHY: Return of the chador? • HISTORY: Khrushchev memoirs: Volume 2 appears •  The Western left and the USSR • PSYCHOLOGY: Bernstein: outliving Pavlov's legacy • Mikhailov: a veteran reflects • RUSSIAN LANGUAGE: The Creolization of Russian? • CORRESPONDENCE: More on alphabets • Battle cries
 

RAS #35 ~ April 2006
POLITICS: The future of opposition • ECONOMY: Market integration • EPIDEMIOLOGY: Haemorrhagic fever moves north • RUSSIA AND THE WORLD: America's new map of the world: implications for Russia • China's map of the world: Russia as "older sister" • China in Central Asia • HISTORICAL ESSAY: Stalin and Israel • REFLECTIONS: Radioactive scavengers • CORRESPONDENCE
 

RAS #34 ~ March 2006
POLITICS: Developments in radical nationalism • ECONOMY: Oil and growth • Oil and banking •  Forestry reform • EPIDEMIOLOGY: Malaria makes a comeback • AIDS in the South Caucasus
LAW: The Constitutional Court versus the Procuracy • RUSSIA AND ITS NEIGHBORS: Nuclear energy cooperation • Irina Isakova, Russian Governance in the 21st Century: Geo-strategy, Geopolitics and Governance Reviewed by Douglas Blum
 

RAS #33 ~ February 2006
POLITICS: Putin's court • The Yukos affair and Putin's kandidat dissertation • FEDERAL-REGIONAL RELATIONS: Review. Peter Reddaway and Robert W. Orttung, eds. The Dynamics of Russian Politics. Vol. 2 • AGRICULTURE: Russian agriculture downsized • End of the peasantry? • ETHNIC RELATIONS: Finno-Ugric peoples • Mari rights under threat? • RUSSIA AND THE WORLD: Defining new priorities in relations with Russia By Dr. Irina Isakova • Review. "Illicit" by Moises Naim • FOLLOW-UP: Exorcising the "Siberian Curse" • Hizb ut-Tahrir: Victims of Persecution?
 

RAS #32 ~ November 2005
POLITICS: The Yukos affair and business- state relations: an unstable equilibrium • Local government reform • Ministerial turnover  • LAW: Antiterrorist law • No intent to incite hatred?
 • SOCIETY: Roots mania • Shifting perceptions of the past • ETHNIC RELATIONS: Ethno-religious conflict in Dagestan • REMINISCENCE: Solya • CORRESPONDENCE: Khrushchev's shoe • Moscow's realpolitik • CORRECTIONS: The Assisted Migration Scheme
 

RAS #31 ~ October 2005
Introduction • Summary of the book • Summary of responses published in EKO • "Patriots of the North": summary of article by Prof. Pound • My own response to the book • Further notes on global warming and Siberia • REMINISCENCE: A Chekist in the family
 

RAS #30 ~ March 2005
HISTORY: KHRUSHCHEV: A new edition of the memoirs • Khrushchev as populist • Did he bang his shoe? • POLITICS: Why do people vote for Putin? • The politics of regional enlargement
LAW: Hate crimes • DEMOGRAPHY: Assessing the 2002 Russian population census • RUSSIA AND THE WORLD: Moscow's realpolitik • Further on the Ukrainian elections • Matthew Maly. Ukraine's defining moment •  CORRESPONDENCE ON MAT
 

RAS #29 ~ January 2005
Special Issue: Chechnya & Russia-West Relations:
Introducing the symposium • The contributors • Vladimir Pastukhov: Beslan: Notes in the Aftermath of Tragedy • Valery Tishkov: Terror and Its Observers • John Russell: Basayev -- The Beast of Beslan? • P. Terrence Hopmann: Russia, Chechnya, and the "War on Terror" • Stephen Shenfield: The Northern Ireland Peace Settlement: What Relevance to Chechnya? • Valery Tishkov: Afterthoughts • Stephen Shenfield: Final Comments
 

RAS #28 ~ December 2004
MALE AND FEMALE: Domestic violence against women • Mat • OTHER SOCIAL TOPICS:
A passive working class? • Drug addiction • Judicial studies • RUSSIA AND THE WORLD: Moscow's realpolitik • RUSSIA'S NEIGHBORS: Ukraine: democratic revolution or gangsters' quarrel? • Tajikistan: TB gathers pace • HISTORY: Was intra-party democratization possible under Khrushchev?