Strategic Prospects for Russia from the Perspective of Its Modernization Strategy

Russia’s Modernization Strategy,advocated by President Dmitry Medvedev,aims at attracting Western capital,technology and human resources,and building a stronger Russia by making its politics more democratic and its economy more creative.This strategy,different from that of Vladimir Putin’s,underlines Medvedev’s earnestness to modernize Russia with the assistance of the West,and triggers suspicion that his strategy is one of emerging from Putin’s shadow before the next presidential election.Uncertainty is once again defining Russia’s strategic prospects.