Terry D. Clark is associate professor of political science and director of the graduate program in International Relations at Creighton University. He has published extensively on emerging democratic institutions in postcommunist Europe. His articles have appeared in Slavic Review, East European Politics and Societies (EEPS), PS, Nationalities Papers, and the Journal of Policy Studies. Clark is a past recipient of several IREX research grants and was a Fulbright Fellow at Vilnius University, Vilnius University. Ernest Goss is currently the Jack MacAllister Chair in Regional Economics at Creighton University. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Tennessee in 1983 and is a former faculty research fellow at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. He has published over 80 research studies focusing on economic development. He is a member of the editorial board of the Review of Regional Studies and is the editor of Economic Trends. Larisa Kosova started working for VCIOM ten years ago as a research fellow. She is currently a Head of Department. She has published articles on social mobility, attitudes toward reforms in Russia, and civil society in leading Russian journals. Some of these articles have been translated into English and published in the West.