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The Russia Profile Special Report is a quarterly publication that consists of a collection of articles by different staff and freelance authors dedicated to a specific central theme of the editors' choosing. Stories found in our Special Reports are the best-researched, most profound and comprehensive analytical pieces available at RussiaProfile.Org.

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Vladimir Frolov

Vladimir Frolov, the former director of the National Laboratory for Foreign Policy, a Moscow-based think tank, now serves as President of LEFF GROUP, his own government and public communications company. He received his first degree from the Moscow Defense Institute of Foreign Languages and earned a Ph.D. in political science from the Moscow Diplomatic Academy. Mr. Frolov had a distinguished career in the Foreign Service, including postings at the Russian Embassy in Washington D.C. before serving as the Deputy Staff Director of the State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs and Counsel to the Deputy Chief of the Presidential Administration for Foreign Policy. He is married with two children. Mr. Frolov coordinates the Russia Profile Experts’ Panel as well as contributing comments and articles about Russia’s foreign policy.

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05/11/2012

Russia Profile Weekly Experts Panel: Medvedev’s Legacy as President

Now that Dmitry Medvedev has handed over power to his friend Vladimir Putin and has taken his place at the helm of the Russian government as prime minister, it’s time to take stock of his one-term presidency and his historic legacy. Will he go down in history as a great visionary, or a weak and pretentious leader who provided liberal political cover to perpetuate the personal-cult regime of Vladimir Putin? Has Medvedev been a genuine modernizer or was he simply faking modernization to let the steam out? Was he ever president?

05/04/2012

Russia Profile Weekly Experts Panel: Another Putin-Medvedev Swap: Does the Russian Tandem Have a Future?

As Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Mevedev prepare to trade places as they announced last September, they have agreed on another so-called “castling” right after Putin's inauguration on May 7. This time around they will trade places at the helm of the United Russia Party. Will United Russia swap revive the tandem? Why has Medvedev agreed to lead an unpopular political party he has never called home before? What does he need to do as a party leader to turn things around at United Russia?

04/27/2012

Russia Profile Weekly Experts Panel: Does Russia Have a Strategy for Breakaway States?

In mid-March, Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev appointed his special envoys for three breakaway states: Transdnestr (Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin), South Ossetia (North Ossetia’s President Teimuraz Mamsurov) and Abkhazia (Krasnodar Region Governor Alexander Tkachev). No special envoy was appointed for Nagorno-Karabakh, though.What does the appointment of presidential envoys, particularly that of Rogozin, imply about the strategy deliberations in Moscow? Is Russia laying the groundwork for the recognition of Transdnestr as an independent state, were Moldova to reintegrate with Romania? And what would be the geopolitical ramifications of such a move?

04/20/2012

Russia Profile Weekly Experts Panel: The Russian Orthodox Church Faces Public Pressure

The Russian Orthodox Church, or more precisely its conservative top leadership, including Patriarch Kirill, is facing increasing public criticism and pressure over its close relationship with the state, extending unabashed political support to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during the recent presidential election, repression against critics, conspicuous consumption and flashy lifestyles by some of the church’s prominent leaders. Is the church leadership’s cultural conservatism at odds with a more culturally diverse society in Russia’s major metropolitan centers? What should the right relationship between the church, the state and society be in a modern, post-industrial country that Russia is striving to become?

04/13/2012

Russia Profile Weekly Experts Panel: Is There a Problem With the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow?

U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul has turned himself into a public figure in Moscow, which is, perhaps, turning him into a problem for U.S.-Russian relations. Ever since the former NSC director for Russia and the architect of Barack Obama's “reset” policy arrived in Moscow on the first diplomatic mission of his career, hardly a day goes by without a public snafu over some action by Obama's envoy. What is the problem with McFaul? Why is the Kremlin singling him out for highly personal attacks and harassment? Will Obama have to replace his ambassador to Moscow?

04/06/2012

Russia Profile Weekly Experts Panel: Is Russia the United States’ Number One Foe?

U.S. Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney seized upon President Barack Obama’s open-mic gaffe at the nuclear security summit in Seoul, where Obama was overheard asking his Russian counterpart, President Dmitry Medvedev, to give him more space during the difficult election year and indicating he might have more flexibility on the thorny issue of missile defense during his second term. Do Republicans really think Russia is the United States' number one geopolitical rival and foe? How will Romney’s attack on Obama’s Russia policy and his management of foreign affairs help the Republicans at the polls in November?

03/30/2012

Russia Profile Weekly Experts Panel: Can Putin and Obama Make a Deal on Missile Defense?

Speaking at the Euro-Atlantic Security Conference in Moscow last Friday, outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev said Russia and NATO could still reach an agreement on missile defense, but time is running out and opportunities for compromise are becoming fewer as the U.S. missile defense plans near implementation. Can Putin and Obama make a deal on missile defense? Would Obama go for a written statement of guarantees sought by Russia? Would Putin accept this as a compromise?

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