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1 Michael McFaul, `Russia: The Sky Has Not Fallen', Washington Post , 19 May 1998. See also Michael McFaul, `Russia's “Privatized” States as an Impediment to Democratic Consolidation', Parts I and II, Security Dialogue , vol. 29, no. 2, June 1998, pp. 191-199; no. 3, September 1998, pp. 315-332.
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2 Rossiiskaya gazeta , 13 May 1998.
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3 Brian Killen, `Russia Marks War Victory with Red Square Parade', Reuters , item no. 1 in Johnson's Russia List #2171, 10 May 1998, davidjohnson@erols.com
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4 Ariel Cohen, `Towards a Theory of Post-Imperial Space: The Case of Central Asia', Presentation at the Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Seattle, WA, 22 November 1997, p. 10.
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5 See, for instance, Daniel Pipes, `The Politics of the “Rip Van Winkle” States: The Southern Tier States of the Ex-Soviet Union Have Moved the Borders of the Middle East North', Middle East Insight , no. 10, November-December 1993, pp. 30-40.
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6 See a detailed analysis of this issue in Vladimir Zaharescu & Stefani Hoffman, `The CIS Muslim Republics and the Middle East', Research Paper 78 , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Marjorie Mayrock Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Research, Jerusalem, 1995.
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7 See Aleksei Arbatov, `Rossiya: Natsional'naya bezopasnost v 90-e gody' [Russia: National Security in the 1990s], MEIMO , no. 9, 1994, pp. 5-18.
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8 Note the recent comment in `The Situation in Iran and the Prospects for Russian-iranian Relations', Nuclear Control Digest , no. 6, winter 1997/1998, p.12: `The longer Moscow's approach (if there is any) towards the Middle East situation remains unclear to Iran, the more it will be attracted to the “peace-making” option, especially if such peace-making with the United States would entail certain concessions on the part of Washington.'
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9 See USIA Foreign Media Reaction, 8 April, 1998, in Turkistan Newsletter , vol. 98, no. 2, p. 66, 10 April 1998.
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10 `Strategiya Rossii v XXI veke' [Russia's Strategy in the 21st Century], Nezavisimaya gazeta , 18 and 19 June 1998.
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11 Izvestiya , 5 November 1997.