Introduction -- Post-communist Russia : from Yeltsin to Putin -- Rebuilding the state, 2000-03 -- From reforms to control, 2003-06 -- The Big Two and and the Big Eight : Russia, the United States, and the G-8 -- Russia and Europe : old neighbors and new -- Russia and Asia : bilateral ties and the future of the Russian Far East -- Russia's direction : toward the main highway of human development -- How should the Trilateral countries respond? : strategic partnership or pragmatic engagement?