The conflict over Karabakh had been the longest-running in the post-Soviet space, with major implications for Moscow's strategic mindset in Ukraine and other regions.
<p>The authors of this analysis draw on lessons from relevant historical examples of post-war and post–natural disaster reconstruction to provide insights on how to organize, finance, and provide security for Ukraine s reform and reconstruction.</p>
The Senate soon will vote on H.R. 4426, the U.S. Foreign Operations appro- priations bill for fiscal year 1995. The House already has voted on it; after the Sen- ate vote, differences will be resolved by a joint conference of the House and Sen- ate. An important element of this legislation will be its provisions for aid to Rus- sia and the other New Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union. De- spite billions of dollars in aid, the economies of these countries still are in deep trouble. While there are many reasons for this, one of them surely is the ineffec- tive way in which aid has been dispensed by the United States and other donors. To ease the transition to a f1ree market in these countries, U.S. programs should be restructured to make them more effective and timely. The American people are entitled to be skeptical about the effectiveness of U.S. aid to Russia and the NIS. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 the U.S. has promised $16 billion in aid to the former