Four years into the war with Ukraine, what have we learned about the Russian political, bureaucratic and economic system? Is Putin’s Russia running out of money, patience or flexibility? Is it ready for the challenges ahead? Alex Kolyandr discusses it with a renowned Russian scholar, Professor Mark Galeotti, whose In Moscow’s Shadows podcast is a must for anyone even vaguely interested in Russia.
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Financial analyst, a non-resident senior scholar at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), a former Vice President of Credit Suisse, and a former reporter at The Wall Street Journal and BBC.
The war in Iran has distracted the West from Ukraine and pushed oil above $100 a barrel — a major boost for the Kremlin. But Russia’s budget windfall is falling short of expectations, the economy has slipped into the red for the first time in three years, Russians are increasingly
What a difference a year makes. The Russian economy lurched from spectacular growth to near-stagnation, from consumer spending sprees to belt-tightening. The contradictions that officials papered over for months finally caught up with them—and the true costs of the war are now impossible to ignore. Join the authors of
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