Sergei Karaganov
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Sergey Karaganov is a Russia
n political scientist who heads the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, an analytical institution. Karaganov is a close associate of Yevgeny Primakov
, and has been Presidential Advisor to both Boris Yeltsin
and Vladimir Putin
. http://www.eng.yabloko.ru/Publ/2002/papers/moscow-times-020402.html.
Karaganov has been a member of the Trilateral Commission
since 1998, and served on the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations
from 1995 until 2005. He has also been Deputy Director of the Institute of Europe at the USSR (now Russian) Academy of Sciences
since 1989. http://eng.karaganov.ru/bio/
Karaganov is known as the progenitor of the Karaganov Doctrine, which states that Moscow should pose as the defender of human rights of ethnic Russians living in the 'near abroad' for the purpose of gaining political influence in these regions. After Karaganov published an article advocating this stance in 1992, Russia's foreign policy position linked Russian troop withdrawals from the Baltics with the end of 'systemic discrimination' against Russians in these countries, the large majority of whom had relocated to the Baltics during the Soviet occupation. http://books.google.com/books?id=YaYbzQQN97EC&pg=PA161&lpg=PA161&dq=karaganov+doctrine&source=bl&ots=WR1XVMK5aI&sig=DC0NOYMTR18F9QGFkZX4u-ZtMeg&hl=en&ei=PjbUTu4MkLjZBZm0iXM&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDMQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=karaganov%20doctrine&f=false
Karaganov is the only intellectual from the former Soviet Union listed in the 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll
, and only one of four, with Pavol Demeš, Václav Havel
and Slavoj Žižek
, from Eastern Europe
.
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n political scientist who heads the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, an analytical institution. Karaganov is a close associate of Yevgeny Primakov
Yevgeny Primakov
Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov is a Russian politician and diplomat. During his long career, he served as the Russian Foreign Minister, Prime Minister of Russia, Speaker of the Soviet of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, and chief of intelligence service...
, and has been Presidential Advisor to both Boris Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.Originally a supporter of Mikhail Gorbachev, Yeltsin emerged under the perestroika reforms as one of Gorbachev's most powerful political opponents. On 29 May 1990 he was elected the chairman of...
and Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin served as the second President of the Russian Federation and is the current Prime Minister of Russia, as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. He became acting President on 31 December 1999, when...
. http://www.eng.yabloko.ru/Publ/2002/papers/moscow-times-020402.html.
Karaganov has been a member of the Trilateral Commission
Trilateral Commission
The Trilateral Commission is a non-governmental, non-partisan discussion group founded by David Rockefeller in July 1973 to foster closer cooperation among the United States, Europe and Japan.-History:...
since 1998, and served on the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations
Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations is an American nonprofit nonpartisan membership organization, publisher, and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs...
from 1995 until 2005. He has also been Deputy Director of the Institute of Europe at the USSR (now Russian) Academy of Sciences
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals....
since 1989. http://eng.karaganov.ru/bio/
Karaganov is known as the progenitor of the Karaganov Doctrine, which states that Moscow should pose as the defender of human rights of ethnic Russians living in the 'near abroad' for the purpose of gaining political influence in these regions. After Karaganov published an article advocating this stance in 1992, Russia's foreign policy position linked Russian troop withdrawals from the Baltics with the end of 'systemic discrimination' against Russians in these countries, the large majority of whom had relocated to the Baltics during the Soviet occupation. http://books.google.com/books?id=YaYbzQQN97EC&pg=PA161&lpg=PA161&dq=karaganov+doctrine&source=bl&ots=WR1XVMK5aI&sig=DC0NOYMTR18F9QGFkZX4u-ZtMeg&hl=en&ei=PjbUTu4MkLjZBZm0iXM&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDMQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=karaganov%20doctrine&f=false
Karaganov is the only intellectual from the former Soviet Union listed in the 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll
The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll
The Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll was conducted in November 2005 and June 2008 by Prospect Magazine and Foreign Policy on the basis of responding readers' ballot...
, and only one of four, with Pavol Demeš, Václav Havel
Václav Havel
Václav Havel is a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic . He has written over twenty plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally...
and Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, critical theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political theory, film theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis....
, from Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
.