Russia’s economy hit the brakes — is a full stop coming? The Bell Webinar — December 10, 2025

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 our weekly newsletter, Alexander Kolyandr and Alexandra Prokopenko for an hour-long dissection of Russia's economic unraveling.

During the webinar, we discussed the following topics:

• What if there's a peace deal on the horizon?
• Where do things go from here?
• How we got here and what the data really shows?

We discussed these and many other timely questions about the state of the Russian economy with our experts:

Alexander Kolyandr

A 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.

Alexandra Prokopenko

One of Russia’s leading independent economic analysts. Alexandra worked as an advisor at Russia’s Central Bank and Moscow’s Higher School of Economics. Today, Alexandra works as a researcher at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Berlin. She holds an MA in Sociology from the University of Manchester.

Peter Mironenko

Co-founder of The Bell. Peter has 20 years' editing experience at Russia's largest business dailies – Kommersant and RBC. In 2017, he founded The Bell together with Elizaveta Osetinskaya and Irina Malkova.

Watch the full webinar below: