By Judyth L. Twigg (eds.)
ISBN-10: 0230603394
ISBN-13: 9780230603394
ISBN-10: 1349532193
ISBN-13: 9781349532193
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Although weakened relative to the Soviet era, its nuclear and conventional military forces are among the few with a truly global reach, and its military technology makes Russian arms highly competitive on global markets. It is the second largest exporter of energy (after Saudi Arabia), and taking into account both oil and natural gas, Russia has the world’s largest energy reserves. It is a wealthy country by world standards, and in terms of economic growth Russia has outperformed the United States and Europe for the last five years.
Sexual contact with people from places where HIV prevalence was much higher introduced a greater chance of infection into the USSR. Although the infection was imported from abroad, concentrating on blaming contact with foreigners was a way of turning attention away from the behavior of the indigenous population (Petersen, 1990, p. 5). Once HIV had entered the USSR, one did not have to have sex with a foreigner to catch it. Short of extensive contact tracing it would be difficult to uncover the origins of all the HIV infections as they spread in the USSR.
It is in this institutional context that one needs to understand the specific politics of the Yeltsin and Putin presidencies. It was a political terrain that produced the proto-democratic, chaotic, corrupt, weak state of the Yeltsin era. But it is also this very terrain that has produced a neoauthoritarian, more predictable, corrupt, strong state of the Putin era (Shevtsova, 1999 and 2003). Most contemporary analysis focuses on how the current Russian political system has evolved to be very different from the Russian political system of just five years ago.
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