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American o􀉽cials have
observed that the Russians often focus on process rather than
progress. Multinational negotiations on two frozen con􀉻icts—
Nagorno-Karabakh and Transnistria—have been going on for more
than two decades, but Russia seems to be in no hurry to see these
disputes resolved.

Love Stent's writing, as usual. Reads very well and attentively, like a thriller

Clinton and his key advisors thought that it was
possible both to enlarge NATO and to keep Russia inside the tent by
o

Throughout the 1990s, therefore, Russia had limited relations
with the key European and Euro-Atlantic institutions, partly because
full membership in these clubs was not on o

Jackson-Vanik would not be 􀉹nally repealed until the
end of 2012—twenty-one years after the Soviet collapse

Perhaps the most
graphic example of congressional reticence toward normalizing
relations with Russia was the persistence of the Jackson-Vanik
amendment.

In January 1993 Vladimir Lukin, the 􀉹rst post-Soviet
ambassador to the United States, said that relations between Russia
and the former Soviet states “should be treated as identical to those
between New York and New Jersey

In Operation Provide Hope, the
United States provided food aid and medicines for sixty-two cities.
But it rejected the idea of a Marshall plan for Russia and limited its
involvement in assistance programs

U.S.-Russian relations since the Soviet collapse have gone
through not one, but four resets