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A 5 page research paper that discusses Russia under Putin and how this president is using the country’s natural resources to leverage his position both domestically and abroad. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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expert at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, points out that while Russia has the trappings of democracy, it retains a "strong authoritarian core" (Smith 20). Under Putins leadership,
Russias economy has prospered and underlying much of this economic success is the price of oil, as Russia is the worlds second-greatest exporter of crude oil (Smith 20). Nevertheless, some
experts fear that Russias oil wealth, while it has caused many Russians to prosper, has actually weakened its democracy (Smith 20). Valdimir Ryzhkov, a liberal representative in the Duma, asserts
that as oil prices increased, "reforms became slower" (Smith 20). Last year, as oil prices reached record levels, the Russian legislature did not pass one reform. Furthermore,
there has been a pattern of critics of the government dying under suspicious circumstances. Alexander Litvinenko, while in London, was poisoned from being exposed to polonium 210. He died accusing
Putin, a former K.G.B. agent, as responsible for his death (Smith 20). Another government critic, award-winning journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered (Smith 20). In 2006, Putin signed into law
a bill that classifies "slander" or "libel of government officials" as "extremism" and journalists and civil rights groups fear that it will further "restrict peoples freedom of expression" (Smith 20).
Putin has been methodical in the manner in which he has insured that Russias energy resources are under state control. Having accomplished this task, he is now deploying them
as "tool of international statecraft," as Russias energy exports have taken the place of nuclear weapons or Communism as the "principal agent of Russian influence abroad" (Twining 29). The Russian
government is formulating a "grand strategy" that can reasonably be considered analogous to seventeenth century mercantilism, as it was practiced in that centuries European empires, which managed trade as a
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