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• Economy

  Russia can’t afford its war on Ukraine. Here’s why

  24 March, by RAMSAY Adam

  Weapons are astonishingly expensive and Ukrainians won’t surrender. But those aren’t Vladimir Putin’s only problems
  The invasion of Ukraine began just 77 days after US troops limped out of Iraq, and just six months after the retreat from Afghanistan.
  There’s something Putin seems to have failed (...)

• Economy

  Cold Peace - Russian Economic Background to Ukraine War

  16 March, by DURAND Cédric

  Petrov’s Flu (2021), the latest film by Kirill Serebrennikov, opens with a depiction of a crowded commuter bus in Russia. The atmosphere is febrile, almost violent. In the grip of a fever, the protagonist suffers a coughing fit and moves to the back of the vehicle. Following closely behind him, (...)

• Economy

  Russia in Crisis: the Agonies of the Oil Empire

  January 2016, by BUDRAITSKIS Ilya

  Everyone understands that the coming year will see Russia immersed in an economic crisis, one which will almost inevitably entail a social and political crisis. It was already over a year ago that Vladimir Putin, while taking part in his favorite genre of television, “direct association with the (...)

• Economy

  After the Biriuliovo pogroms: Moscow’s Anti-Immigrant Pogrom and the Economics of Racism

  28 October 2013, by BUDRAITSKIS Ilya

  On October 13^th, in Biriuliovo, a district in the south of Moscow, a series of events took place that are still the talk of most Russian media. Several thousand local residents and radical right activists held a spontaneous rally demanding “an end to illegal immigration and ethnic crime.” Soon (...)