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Over the past 20 years, Russia has ceased to be a superpower while China has become the world's second largest economy. How has this dramatic shift in fortunes changed the way they see each other? Dmitri Trenin argues that while Russia still relies on Western technology for economic modernisation, it sees Beijing as an increasingly useful partner in curbing US power. China's rise, Moscow hopes, will provide Russia with more breathing room. To Beijing, Russia's decline is but one of many changes that have accompanied China's rapid growth. The US dominates Chinese thinking but Russia is important to Beijing's effort to balance US power, and as a source of energy. Despite their overlapping interests, the two countries are not allies. Moscow will not accept a junior position vis-à-vis Beijing, while the Chinese regard Russia as a fading power.

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Russia (Federation). --- Reorganization. --- Russia (Federation) --- Russia (Federation) --- Russia (Federation) --- Russia (Federation) --- Politics and government. --- Economic policy. --- Economic conditions. --- Military policy.

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Over the last decade the "transition paradigm", which is based on the conviction that authoritarian political systems would over time necessarily develop into democracies, has been subjected to serious criticism. The complex political and societal developments in the post-Soviet region in particular have exposed flaws in the claim that a shift from authoritarianism to democracy is inevitable. Using case studies from the post-Soviet region, a broad range of international contributors present an original and innovative contribution to the debate. They explore the character of post-Soviet regimes and review the political transformations they have experienced since the end of the Cold War. Through a combination of theoretical approaches and detailed, empirical analysis the authors highlight the difficulties and benefits of applying the concepts of hybrid regimes, competitive authoritarianism and neopatrimonialism to the countries of the post-Soviet space.Through this in-depth approach the authors demonstrate how "Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats" in the region lead their countries, examine the sources of their legitimacy and their relationship to the societies they govern and advance the general theoretical debate on regime change and transition paths.

Russia (Federation) --- Politics and government --- Russia (Federation) - Politics and government - 1991 --- -Russia (Federation) - Politics and government - 1991 --- -Russia (Federation)

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RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--MILITARY POLICY --- RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--ARMED FORCES --- RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--ARMED FORCES--REORGANIZATION

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Vladimir Poutine est l'un des hommes les plus puissants de la planète et jusqu'à présent l'un des dirigeants les plus populaires de la Russie moderne. Pourtant, un an avant son élection à la tête du pays en 2000, il était encore totalement inconnu. Comment est-il soudain devenu l'héritier du président Boris Eltsine ? Comment cet ancien lieutenant-colonel du KGB est-il arrivé au pouvoir et comment a-t-il pu depuis en contrôler tous les rouages ? Poursuivant dans ce livre la minutieuse enquête qu'elle avait conduite pour son film La Prise du pouvoir par Vladimir Poutine, la journaliste et réalisatrice russe Tania Rakhmanova révèle les dessous stupéfiants d'une "démocratie" transformée en régime autoritaire et liberticide dans les années 2000. Au fil d'épisodes dignes d'un roman d'espionnage, on découvrira le jeu des intrigues au cœur du Kremlin, les incroyables fortunes accumulées par certains oligarques ou la scandaleuse instrumentalisation de la guerre en Tchétchénie. Mais aussi, fil rouge de cette enquête, la manipulation des médias. Entre désinformation et censure - sans parler des assassinats de journalistes -, le contrôle de la télévision est devenu l'instrument de pouvoir privilégié de la Russie de Poutine, conformément à son précepte : "Les gens n'ont pas besoin de savoir la vérité. Ce que vous ne montrez pas n'existe pas". Un livre clé pour comprendre les enjeux de l'élection présidentielle russe de 2012, l'équilibre des forces au sein du tandem Medvedev/Poutine au pouvoir et, surtout, les véritables ressorts du pouvoir dans la Russie d'aujourd'hui.

National security --- Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, - 1952 --- -Russia (Federation) --- Russia (Federation) --- Russia (Federation)