Contents: Preface; Russian President Putin's Prospective Policies: Issues and Implications; Nuclear Weapons: Monitoring Warhead Dismantlement; IMF and World Bank Activities in Russia and Asia: Some Conflicting Perspectives; Chechnya Conflict: Recent Developments; Kosovo Conflict: Russian Responses and Implications for the United States; International Crime: Russian Organised Crime's Role and US Interests; Debate in the Russian Duma: Issues and Prospects; Russian Developments; Nuclear Arms Control: The US-Russian Agenda; Russian Capital Flight and the Banking Scandals: An Examination of Definitions and Data; Russian Defence Enterprises in Transition to the Market; Risk Environments and the Future of Russian Private Farming; Russian Presidents and State Power: Elections, Institutional Power and Reform in Russia Under Yeltsin and Putin.