Russia and Eurasia Documents: 1993, The Russian Federation J.L. Black, ed. Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 1995

Foreign Policy: “A Fresh Start. Tomorrow Will See the Inauguration of the 42nd President of the United States”—Bill Clinton (Ye), 310

Ye’s piece on the foreign policy in relation to the United States depicts the transmigration from President Bush to Clinton, and the “bad cards” which Bush passed on to him. The failure of Bush’s and Reagan’s “Reagonomic blueprint” resulted in a tripling of the federal budget deficit and government borrowing in excess of $3 trillion. Ye hopes that Clinton, as the head of the only superpower currently in existence in the world, would be able to jump start the economy by putting a greater “focus on the economy”, and focus on the taxing problems at home in the United States. The author can only hope that Clinton will be able to “play his campaign chips”, and hopefully, whether or not his term as president will result in the fulfillment of said hope.

Quality of Life, The Environment, and Crime: “Already, They are Simply Not Paying Us and We Are Simply Not Working—And We Are Not Pretending” (Andreev), 361-363

In a survey asking whether or not people’s attitudes regarding work were changing, the majority of over one thousand respondents believed that the economic reforms instigated in Russia either worsened or failed to change the people’s attitude toward work. The survey also led to the conclusions that Russians had grown to distrust their government’s ability to take positive steps in improving the quality of life for the people of Russia, and also that the people are “counting only on their own activity and entrepreneurship and the support of their families”. Taken by itself, this mentality of the people of Russia would have been a positive mentality toward the betterment of Russian quality of