Russia Update
Watch experts discuss domestic politics in Russia ahead of upcoming presidential elections as well as the future of U.S.-Russia relations.
Speakers: Edward Lucas, Central and Eastern European Correspondent, Economist; Author, The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West
Stephen R. Sestanovich, George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider: Jack F. Matlock Jr., Adjunct Professor of International Relations, Columbia University; U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1987–91
February 22, 2008
Watch three experts discuss whether Russia's increasingly muscular foreign policy could strain tensions with the United States and Europe and spawn a new Cold War.
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Watch experts discuss domestic politics in Russia ahead of upcoming presidential elections as well as the future of U.S.-Russia relations.
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