Nations in Transit 1999-2000 could not have been completed without the dedicated and expert advice of the project’s academic consultants. Freedom House is grateful to Professor Alexander Motyl, who serves as Associate Director of the Center for Global Change and Governance at Rutgers University, Newark, and who coordinated the advisers’ group and provided editorial expertise for the country reports; Boris Shor, who coordinated the Nations in Transit 1997 survey and who wrote several country essays and provided editorial guidance on all sections of the survey dealing with economics and privatization; Stephen Handelman, who is an associate at the Harriman Institute, the author of Comrade Criminal: Russia's New Mafia, and who edited the sections dealing with corruption: and Kate Scheeter, a consultant to the World Bank on social conditions in the post-Communist world, who wrote the essay on social policy and edited the social policy sections of the country reports. (Acknowledgments, fragment)