William Pomeranz is the Deputy Director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., USA. In addition, Dr Pomeranz teaches Russian law at the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies, Georgetown University, USA. He has written numerous journal articles on post-Soviet legal developments, including Russian foreign investment laws, judicial review, federalism, and corruption. He is also a frequent commentator on developments in Russia, with appearances on C-Span, Sky News, CNN, NPR, VOA, Bloomberg, and several other media networks. His editorials have appeared with Reuters, the National Interest, and CNN International. Kathleen E. Smith is Visiting Professor at the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University, USA. She is the author of Remembering Stalin's Victims: Popular Memory and the End of the USSR (1996) andMythmaking in the New Russia: Politics and Memory in the Yeltsin Era (2002).