If you agree with this petition, please contact Dr. Krasnow through the email link on the homepage so that your voice will also be heard. We, a group of scholars, business people, journalists, and friends of Russia, are alarmed over the ongoing crisis in Russia and the deterioration of U.S.-Russia relations.
Elderly pensioners dying of starvation no longer make news.
And the question for the country now is whether it can survive at all as a coherent state, still less as a civilized society. The statistics are staggering. The decline of Russia in the 1990s is deeper than even the Great Depression in the United States. The weakening of the Russian state should give us no reason to gloat over the demise of our former Cold War opponent. On the contrary, if Russia disintegrates we would be faced with an arch of instability, starvation, and armed struggle, stretching from the borders of NATO countries to China, North Korea and the Sea of Japan.