Author: Leon Aron / Political Geography: Asia

Author:: Leon Aron
Publication Date:: 10-2004
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: Overlooked in the victory of the pro-Kremlin party, United Russia, in the Duma election last December and President Vladimir Putin's overwhelming victory in the presidential election three months later was a milestone in Russia's post-Soviet political history: the precipitous decline of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF). The single largest faction in the Duma between 1995 and 2003, the KPRF was reduced to 12 percent of the party-list vote in the Duma poll while the Communist candidate for the presidency, who received 40 percent in the 1996 election and 24 percent in 2000, ended up with 14 percent.
Topic:: Economics, International Organization, and International Trade and Finance
Political Geography:: Russia, Europe, and Asia

Author:: Leon Aron
Publication Date:: 07-2004
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: Perhaps more than any other structural market reform unfolding today in Russia, pension privatization epitomizes both the enormous progress achieved over the past decade and the equally huge obstacles still ahead on the road to "civilized" liberal capitalism. The reform highlights and tests the quality of key institutions and instruments central to such a system: transparency and liquidity of banks and mutual funds, probity and competence of state regulatory agencies, and stability of equity and bond markets.
Topic:: Economics, International Organization, and International Trade and Finance
Political Geography:: Russia, Europe, and Asia

Author:: Leon Aron
Publication Date:: 03-2004
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: The Revolution had, indeed, two distinct phases: one in which the sole aim of the French nation seemed to be to make a clean sweep of the past; and a second, in which attempts were made to salvage fragments from the wreckage of the old order. For many of the laws and administrative methods which were suppressed in 1789 reappeared a few years later, much as some rivers after going underground re-emerge at another point, in new surroundings.
Topic:: Democratization, Economics, and Emerging Markets
Political Geography:: Russia, Europe, Asia, and France

Author:: Leon Aron
Publication Date:: 01-2004
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: The December 7, 2003, election to the Russian parliament, the State Duma, has been portrayed in the U.S. media as mostly a product of the Kremlin's machinations. Its "administrative resources"--most importantly, its control of national television channels--are said to be almost entirely responsible for the winning performance of the "party of power," United Russia, which garnered 37 percent of the party-list vote among twenty-three parties and blocs on the ballot.
Topic:: Democratization, Economics, and Emerging Markets
Political Geography:: Russia, Europe, and Asia

Author:: Leon Aron
Publication Date:: 09-2003
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: In the early morning of October 25, 2003, masked agents of the Russian security agency, the FSB, stormed the plane of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, CEO and principal owner of Russia's largest private oil company, YUKOS; arrested him; and conveyed him to a Moscow prison. He was charged with tax evasion, fraud, forgery, and embezzlement.
Topic:: Democratization, Economics, and Emerging Markets
Political Geography:: Russia, Europe, and Asia

Author:: Leon Aron
Publication Date:: 06-2002
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: The most interesting phenomenon on Russia's literary scene today is the popularity of the Erast Fandorin mysteries by Grigoriy Shalvovich Chkhartishvili, who writes as Boris Akunin.
Topic:: Democratization, Economics, and Emerging Markets
Political Geography:: Russia, Europe, and Asia

Author:: Leon Aron
Publication Date:: 09-2001
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: For almost two centuries—since Alexander Pushkin's masterpieces laid the foundation—Russian literature has persisted in addressing the core issues and dilemmas of human existence, taking humanity's measure, and explaining Russia and Russians to themselves and the world. Even during the Soviet era, when virtually all of Russia's finest writers and poets were exiled, killed, imprisoned, savagely censored, or forbidden to publish, the tradition lived in underground samizdat, manuscripts smuggled abroad, and in the state-run literary magazines of the “liberal” persuasion, especially during political thaws.
Topic:: Democratization, Economics, and Emerging Markets
Political Geography:: Russia, Europe, Asia, and Soviet Union

Author:: Leon Aron
Publication Date:: 01-2001
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: The Berlin Wall fell eleven years ago, and nine years have passed since Boris Yeltsin launched the Russian economic revolution by abolishing state control over prices. Although minuscule in historic terms, the time elapsed still furnishes a wealth of data for a provisional analysis of the key factors that shaped the political, economic, and social character of post-Communist nations. The same structural variables may help gauge the future—at least in the short to medium term.
Topic:: Democratization, Economics, and Emerging Markets
Political Geography:: Russia, Europe, Asia, and Berlin

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