Publication

This issue of Russia in Global Affairs asks how the changes in the economic situation could affect Russia's development prospects. It deals with modernization, the liberalization of Russian politics and the development of a new social contract. The publication is also concerned with the global rearrangement, looking at how to bring the Cold War to an end and create prosperous cooperation with Russia's eastern and southern neighbors and its peers in the BRIC states. It also raises the strategic and economic role of Russia's immense reservoirs of freshwater. On the global outlook, it examines the legal implications of the crisis and asks whether the economic downturn really resembles the Great Depression.