1. On the new Cold War, see EL. E. Kanet (ed.), Russia: Re-emerging Great Power (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
2. E. Lucas, The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces both Russia and the West (London: Bloomsbury, 2008).
3. D. Trenin, Getting Russia Right (Washington D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2007).
4. B. Dubin, Zhit’ v Rossii na rubezhe stoletii. Sotsiologicheskie ocherki i razrabotki (Moscow: Progress/Traditsiia, 2007).
5. R. Rose, “Is Russia Becoming a Normal Society?”, Demokratizatsiya, vol. 15, no. 4 (2007), pp. 75–86.