Volume 7 Number 3

Summer 1998

Constitution Watch
          A country-by-country update on constitutional politics in Eastern Europe and the ex-USSR

Special Reports

	Alexander Lukashuk diagnoses the hypertrophy of presidential powers in Belarus
	Victor Nemchinov examines administrative confiscation of intellectual property
	Ivan Krastev questions the rationale of the internationally organized war on corruption
	Joseph Middleton describes the new Russian electoral law
	Vladimir Pastukhov explores the disconnection between Russian reformers and Russian society

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These reports have been researched and written by the EECR affiliates and staff:

Maja Brkljacic Scott Carlson Miro Cerar Vladimir Chura Aurelian Craiutu Venelin I. Ganev Mark Gillis

Kathleen Imholz Vakhtang Khmaladze Rumyana Kolarova Andrei Kortunov Gunars Kusins Stevan Lilic Krenar Loloci

Alexander Lukashuk Darina Malova Tomasz Merta Alina Mungiu-Pippidi Zaza Namoradze Laszlo Nemenyi Marko Novak

Mitchell Orenstein Vello Pettai Alison Rose Lavinia Stan Elena Stefoi-Sava Steven Solnick Virgus Valentinavicius