Strategic Rivalry: Prospects for Russian-American Relations in the New US Political Cycle

... problems— corruption, dubious management efficiency, and problems with the rule of law. Ardent fighters against “Western meddling” will only help this goal. Like Brezhnev’s cadres, they will clean up the initiative, bureaucratise the system, and ... ... conditions are much less favourable, and the political risks for foreign economic relations are becoming higher. It is enough for the USA only to gradually warm up the “milk in the boiler”. All this, of course, does not exclude cooperation or at least interaction ...