
Putin’s Flatlining Economy
Nov 5, 2020 blames the Kremlin's policy failures, not the COVID-19 crisis, for Russia's growing economic travails.
Sergei Guriev, a former chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and former rector of the New Economic School in Moscow, is Professor of Economics at Sciences Po.
Nov 5, 2020 blames the Kremlin's policy failures, not the COVID-19 crisis, for Russia's growing economic travails.
Jun 23, 2020 thinks Vladimir Putin’s regime may be reaching a moment of reckoning, highlights the link between pandemics and inequality, and praises Twitter’s recent crackdown on fake news.
Feb 5, 2020 explains why a recent political storm has highlighted the extent of the country’s economic progress.
Jan 18, 2020 argues that Russia's president has already built the regime he described in his recent “bombshell” speech.
Dec 27, 2019 argues that the Kremlin will be forced to dedicate a growing share of resources to silencing the informed.
Tackling the COVID-19 pandemic and engineering an economic recovery are only two of the challenges facing new US President Joe Biden. Amid deep social divisions and the continued threat of right-wing extremist violence, Biden must also try to re-establish democratic political norms and restore trust in American leadership at home and abroad.