E. Wayne Merry is a Senior Associate at the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC. A former State Department and Pentagon official, he served in Moscow from 1980-83 and 1991-94. In 1995 he joined the staff of Secretary of Defense Perry as Regional Director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia to develop defense relations with the states of the former Soviet Union. Thereafter he served as Senior Advisor to the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, a bipartisan Congressional-Executive human rights monitoring body.