Russie.NEI.Visionsis an online collection of policy papers each in French, English and Russian produced by the Russia/New Independent States Centre of the French Institute of International Relations (Institut français des relations internationales

Institut français des relations internationales

L'Institut français des relations internationales is the main independent research and debate institution dedicated to international affairs, based in Paris, France....

, Ifri), a think tank

Think tank

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. The collection promotes the publication of policy oriented analyses of events in the post-Soviet space

Post-Soviet states

The post-Soviet states, also commonly known as the Former Soviet Union or former Soviet republics, are the 15 independent states that split off from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in its dissolution in December 1991...

, authored by established experts and up-and-coming analysts.

Created in 2005, today the collection is directed by Thomas Gomart

Thomas Gomart

A French historian of international relations, Dr. Thomas Gomart is Director of the Russia/NIS Center at IFRI and of the trilingual electronic collection Russie.NEI.Visions in English....

 and Tatiana Kastueva-Jean with the help of Dominic Fean and Catherine Méniane. Since its creation, a paper collecting the year's production has been published annually.

The collection offers regular analysis of events in the former Soviet states, peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 and translated into all three languages. The collection has been cited in academic works as well as in the media.

The whole articles can be found on the following e-library : http://www.pearltrees.com/ifri.russie.nei/map/1_97777/

RNV Publications

• No.62, September 2011, Italy, Russia's Voice in Europe?, Nadezhda Arbatova

• No.61, July 2011, What the North Caucasus Means to Russia, Aleksey Malashenko

• No.60, July 2011, The Caucasus: a Hotbed of Terrorism in Metamorphosis, Pavel Baev

• No.59, April 2011, "Digital Kremlin": Power and the Internet in Russia, Julien Nocetti

• No.58, March 2011, Doing Business in Russia: Informal Practices and Anti-Corruption Strategies, Alena Ledeneva & Stanislav Shekshina

• No.57, February 2011, Developing Research in Russian Universities, Irina Dezhina

• No.56, December 2010, Israel's Immigrant Parties: An Inefficient Russia Lobby, Olena Bagno & Zvi Magen

• No.55, November 2010, Syria: Russia's Best Asset in the Middle East, Andrej Kreutz

• No.54, August 2010, Russia's Far East Policy: Looking Beyond China, Stephen Blank

• No.53, July 2010, Results of the 'Reset' in US-Russian Relations, R. Craig Nation

• No.52, June 2010, From Moscow to Mecca: Russia's Saudi Arabian Diplomacy, Julien Nocetti

• No.51, May 2010, Russia and Turkey: Rethinking Europe to Contest Outsider Status, Richard Sakwa
  Richard Sakwa
  Richard Sakwa is an expert in the field of Russian and Eastern European communist and post-communist politics. Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent.-Career:...
  
  

• No.50, May 2010, Europe in Russian Foreign Policy: Important but no longer Pivotal, Thomas Gomart

• No.49, April 2010, Russia's Greater Middle East Policy: Securing Economic Interests, Courting Islam, Mark N. Katz

• No.48, March 2010, Internal and External Impact of Russia's Economic Crisis, Jeffrey Mankoff

• No.47, February 2010, Russia, China and the United States: From Strategic Triangularism to the Postmodern Triangle, Bobo Lo

• No.46, January 2010, Georgia, Obama, the Economic Crisis: Shifting Ground in Russia-EU Relations, Timofei Bordachev

• No.45, December 2009, What Is China To Us ? Westernizers and Sinophiles in Russian Foreign Policy, Andrei Tsygankov
  Andrei Tsygankov
  Andrei Pavlovich Tsygankov is a Russian-born academic and author in the fields of international relations. He is currently a professor at San Francisco State University in California, where he teaches comparative, Russian, and international politics in the Political Science and International...
  
  

• No.44, September 2009, Making Good Use of the EU in Georgia : « Eastern Partnership and Conflict Policy », Dominic Fean

• No.43, August 2009, Russia and the “Eastern Partnership” after the War in Georgia, Jean-Philippe Tardieu

• No.42, July 2009, “Cool Neighbors” : Sweden’s EU Presidency and Russia, Eva Hagström Frisell, Ingmar Oldberg

• No.41, June 2009, The Challenges of Russia’s Demographic Crisis, Anatoly Vichnevsky

• No.40, May 2009, NATO and Russia : Post-Georgia Threat Perceptions, Aurel Braun
  Aurel Braun
  Aurel Braun is Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is also a senior member of the Centre for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies and of the Centre for International Studies, and a Fellow and Senator of Trinity College at the...
  
  

• No.39, April 2009, Obama and Russia : Facing the Heritage of the Bush Years, Thomas Gomart
  Thomas Gomart
  A French historian of international relations, Dr. Thomas Gomart is Director of the Russia/NIS Center at IFRI and of the trilingual electronic collection Russie.NEI.Visions in English....
  
  

• No.38, April 2009, Russia in Latin America : Geopolitical Games in the US’s Neighborhood, Stephen Blank

• No.37, March 2009, Russia’s Armed Forces : The Power of Illusion, Roger McDermott

• No.36, January 2009, China as an Emerging Donor in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, Nargis Kassenova

• No.35, December 2008, Islamist Terrorism in Greater Central Asia : The “Al-Qaedaization” of Uzbek Jihadism, Didier Chaudet

• No.34, September 2008, Russian Chinese Relations through the Lens of the SCO, Stephen Aris

• No.33, August 2008, Academic Cooperation between Russia and the US. Moving Beyond Technical Aid ?, Andrey Kortunov

• No.32, July 2008, Injecting More Differentiation in European Neighbourhood Policy : What Consequences for Ukraine ?, Kerry Longhurst

• No.31, June 2008, Caspian Pipeline Consortium, Bellwether of Russia’s Investment Climate ?, Adrian Dellecker

• No.30, April 2008, The Impact of "New Public Management" on Russian Higher Education, Carole Sigman

• No.29, April 2008, Higher Education in Russia: How to Overcome the Soviet Heritage ?, Boris Saltykov

• No.28, April 2008, Higher Education, the Key to Russia's Competitiveness, Tatiana Kastueva-Jean

• No.27, February 2008, Armenia, a Russian Outpost in the Caucasus ?, Gaïdz Minassian

• No.26, February 2008, EU Gas Liberalization as a Driver of Gazprom's Strategies ?, Catherine Locatelli

• No.25, December 2007, High Stakes in the High North. Russian-Norwegian Relations and their Implication for the EU, Jakub M. Godzimirski

• No.24, November 2007, Russia and the "Gas-OPEC". Real or Perceived Threat?, Dominique Finon

• No.23, October 2007, Paris and the EU-Russia Dialogue: A New Impulse with Nicolas Sarkozy ?, Thomas Gomart
  Thomas Gomart
  A French historian of international relations, Dr. Thomas Gomart is Director of the Russia/NIS Center at IFRI and of the trilingual electronic collection Russie.NEI.Visions in English....
  
  

• No.22, September 2007, Rosoboronexport, Spearhead of the Russian Arms Industry, Louis-Marie Clouet

• No.21, July 2007, Russia and the Deadlock over Kosovo, Oksana Antonenko
  Oksana Antonenko
  Oksana Antonenko is Senior Fellow and Programme Director for Russia and Eurasia of the British International Institute for Strategic Studies .- Overview :...
  
  

• No.20, June 2007, Russie-EU beyond 2007. Russian Domestic Debates, Nadezhda Arbatova

• No.19, May 2007, The Opacity of Russian-Ukrainian Energy Relations, Arnaud Dubien

• No.18, March 2007, Gazprom as a Predictable Partner. Another Reading of the Russian-Ukrainian and Russian-Belarusian Energy Crises, Jérôme Guillet

• No.17, March 2007, Gazprom, the Fastest Way to Energy Suicide, Christophe-Alexandre Paillard

• No.16, February 2007, Russia and the WTO: On the Finishing Stretch, Julien Vercueil

• No.15, January 2007, Russia and the Council of Europe: Ten Years Wasted ?, Jean-Pierre Massias

• No.14, September 2006, The "Greatness and Misery" of Higher Education in Russia, Tatiana Kastueva-Jean

• No.13, September 2006, The EU-Russia Energy Dialogue: Competition Versus Monopolies, Vladimir Milov
  Vladimir Milov
  Vladimir Milov is a Russian politician and the president of the Institute of Energy Policy,a Moscow-based independent think tank. He is the former Deputy Energy Minister of the Russian Federation....
  
  

• No.12, July 2006, The Shanghai Cooperation Organization as "Geopolitical Bluff?" A View from Astana, Murat Laumulin

• No.11, June 2006, Abkhazia and South Ossetia: Collision of Georgian and Russian Interests, Tracey German

• No.10, May 2006, Special Issue : Workshop on EU-Russia relations

"Russia, NATO and the EU: A European Security Triangle or Shades of a New Entente ?", Andrew Monaghan

"The EU and Russia: the Needed Balance Between Geopolitics and Regionalism", Thomas Gomart

Thomas Gomart

A French historian of international relations, Dr. Thomas Gomart is Director of the Russia/NIS Center at IFRI and of the trilingual electronic collection Russie.NEI.Visions in English....

"Representing Private Interests to Increase Trust in Russia-EU Relations", Timofei Bordachev

"Multiplying Sources as the Best Strategy for EU-Russia Energy Relations", Michael Thumann

• No.9, March 2006, Ukraine's Scissors: between Internal Weakness and External Dependence, James Sherr

• No.8, January 2006, Russia and Turkey in the Caucasus: Moving Together to Preserve the Status Quo ?, Fiona Hill and Omer Taspinar

• No.7, October 2005, UE Crisis: What Opportunities for Russia ?, Timofei Bordachev

• No.6 (a), September 2005"Russia and Germany: Continuity and Changes", Andrei Zagorski

• No.6(b), September 2005, "Germany's Policy on Russia: End of the Honeymoon?", Hannes Adomeit

• No.5, August 2005, From Plans to Substance: EU-Russia Relations During the British Presidency, Andrew Monaghan

• No.4, June 2005, Russian Scientists: Where Are they? Where Are They Going? Human Resources and Research Policy in Russia, Irina Dezhina

• No.3, May 2005, Re-Writing Russia's Subsoil Law: from Sovereignty to Civil Law ?, William Tompson

• No.2, April 2005, Shared Neighbourhood or New Frontline ? The Crossroads in Moldova, Dov Lynch

• No.1, April 2005, A Fine Balance - The Strange Case of Sino-Russian Relations, Bobo Lo

Russie.Nei.Reports

Launched in September 2009, Russie.Nei.Reports is an electronic collection providing extensive analysis based on fieldwork. Papers are published either in French or in English.

• No. 8, June 2011 : L'université Goubkine: réservoir de cadres pour le secteur pétrolier et gazier, Tatiana Kastouéva-Jean

• No. 7, May 2011 : Economic Constraint and Ukraine's Security Policy, Dominic Fean

• No. 6, December 2010 : How the Chinese See Russia, Bobo Lo

• No. 5, October 2010 : "Soft power" russe: discours, outils, impact, Tatiana Kastouéva-Jean

• No. 4, September 2010 : Les universités privées, "mal-aimées" de l'enseignement supérieur russe, Tatiana Kastouéva-Jean

• No. 3, March 2010 : L'université technique Bauman: un atout majeur de la politique industrielle russe, Carole Sigman

• No. 2, October 2009 : Le Haut collège d'économie: école de commerce, université et think tank, Carole Sigman

• No. 1, October 2009 : "Projet MISiS": futur modèle de l'enseignement supérieur en Russie?, Tatiana Kastouéva-Jean