The Coronavirus Could Hit Putin Most of All
(FP) The coronavirus pandemic has created problems for countries around the world, but it seems it may hurt Russia in particular, creating new and complicated challenges for President Vladimir Putin.…
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Volkov
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«Фактически убили председателя теневого правительства»
Почему новость о гибели Деда Хасана стала первополосной? У нас есть определенные культурные штампы, стереотипы, в рамках которых убийство главного вора в законе — это сенсация. В нашей стране теневые…
Will the Financial Crisis Lead to Political Change in Russia?
It is widely accepted that the stability of Russia’s political regime and Vladimir Putin’s high approval ratings, first as president and then prime minister, have depended mainly upon a steady…
Russia’s New ‘State Corporations’: Locomotives of Modernization or Covert Privatizations Schemes?
At the end of 2007, just a few months before the end of his presidency, Vladimir Putin exercised Russia’s largest one-time public investment. To this end, he signed statutes creating…
Will the Kremlin Revive the Russian Idea?
During the first week of September 2005, Russian President Vladimir Putin made two foreign trips, each aimed at advancing Russia’s energy policy interests. The North European gas pipeline project, unveiled…
The Selective Use of State Capacity in Russia’s Economy: Property Disputes and Enterprise Takeovers After 2000
Throughout the 1990s, the role of the Russian state in governing the private economy was negligible. Private organizations of various kinds, such as organized criminal groups, private security agencies, and…
The Yukos Affair: Terminating the Implicit Contract
On July 2, 2003, Russian law enforcement arrested billionaire Platon Lebedev, chairman of the Board of Directors of MENATEP, the financial center of the oil giant YUKOS. A few days earlier the…
Security and Rule-Enforcement in Russian Business: The Role of the ‘Mafia’ and the State
The inability of the Russian state to enforce property rights and protect private entrepreneurs has been a major obstacle to economic growth. As the state became weak and lost its…