Toby Gati’s interview with Voice of...
Toby Gati is Senior International Advisor at the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld. She was Special Advisor to President Clinton and Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia at the White House National Security Council, and participated in the design and implementation of U.S. foreign policy toward Russia. Gati, an expert advisor associated with the Moscow School of Political Studies and a member of the School’s Board of Directors, is the author of numerous works on US-Russian relations and the politics and economy of Russia. In an interview with the Russian service of Voice of America, Toby Gati underscored the need for Russia to continue on the course of modernization if it is to preserve the country’s power and status in the world.
Inna Dubinskaya: Do you think President Medvedev’s keynote speech and the Russia modernization project prepared a few days ago by the Institute of Contemporary Development are programmatically linked to each other?