Reexamining Russia: Crime Without Punishment

Issue Date April 1995
Volume 6
Issue 2
Page Numbers 34-45
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About the Author

Ariel Cohen is Henry Salvatori Fellow in Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. He has published widely on U.S.-Russian relations and democratization in the former Soviet Union.

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