Senator John Edwards offered key findings from the task force on Russia he co-chaired with Jack Kemp before a full audience at FSI on April 26, 2006. The task force report, titled "Russia's Wrong Direction: What the United States Can and Should Do," was sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, and examined Russia's dramatic move away from democracy and implications for progress on pressing global issues, such as Iran's nuclear ambitions, terrorism, and global health. The report was drafted by many of America's preeminent Russia scholars and policy practitioners, including Coit D. Blacker, director of FSI, and Michael A. McFaul, director of CDDRL.