1. Summing up the achievements of 2001, most experts pronounced it the most successful year in Russia's post-Soviet history, both for internal consolidation and foreign policy. See, for instance, Sergei Karaganov, “Europe Should Not Be Jealous of Us,”Moskovskie Novosti, No. 52 (December 2001). However, some economists warned about the price of missed opportunities. See Mikhail Delyagin, “What a Waste of a Year,”Moscow Times, January 10, 2002.
2. For sharp analysis of the contradictions of this “pragmatic patriotism,” see Stephen E. Hanson, “The Dilemmas of Russia's Anti-Revolutionary Revolution,”Current History(October 2001), pp. 330–35.
3. This publication is based on the paper prepared for a Strategic Studies Institute workshop (Washington DC, July 10–11, 2001) of the Future Landpower Project (FLEP), which was a part of the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) study,All Our Tomorrows: A Long-Range Forecast of Global Trends Affecting Arms Control Technology
4. As Stephen Cohen has recently noted: “For the first time in history, a fully nuclearized nation is in the process of collapse. The result is potentially catastrophic.” See Stephen F. Cohen, “Russian Nuclear Roulette,”Nation, June 25, 2001. This article, while looking into a number of worst-case scenarios, will stop short of addressing such extreme options as full-blown thermo-nuclear catastrophe inside Russia or strategic nuclear “exchanges” between Russia and the USA.