Russian Political, Economic and Security Issues and U.S. Interests
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33407.pdf
Reviews the March 2008 elections which brought Medvedev into office as President and Putin as Prime Minister, the resurgence of the economy, boosted by profits from oil and gas exports, and the increasingly assertive and anti-western trend of foreign policy. Also traces shifts in U.S. policy from providing aid for WMD threat reduction to imposing economic sanctions for exporting nuclear and military technology to Iran and Syria. From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists.
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