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The Plan of Non-Resistance to the Crisis

Details: 14 March 2016; Sergey Aleksashenko

In his latest comment on key developments impacting the Russian economy, Sergey Aleksashenko, nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former deputy chairman of the Central Bank of Russia, analyzes the economic results for January and critiques the anti-crisis plan recently confirmed by the government.

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The New Interventionists, Putin’s Surprises, and Why Change in Russia Is Not Possible

5 – 11 March

Details: 11 March 2016

In this week’s Western media highlights, Mark Leonard writes in Project Syndicate that the post-Cold War international order is being challenged at several fronts simultaneously by countries like Russia, Iran, China and Saudi Arabia. And Stephen Blank points out in his comment for the Atlantic Council that the West (specifically the U.S. experts and policymakers) fail to fully comprehend Russia’s behavior and its motives. Meanwhile, in the Russian media, Yakov Mirkin continues the debate on the poor state of the Russian economy.

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Putin’s Rational Choices, The Chechen Gambit, and Fatal Amnesia

February 27–March 4

Details: 04 March 2016

Foreign Affairs that the Kremlin’s incursions into Crimea, eastern Ukraine, and Syria should not come as a surprise, as they were driven by geopolitical interests. In Foreign Policy, Tatia Lemondjava explains the logic behind Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov’s recent announcement that he will resign in April. Meanwhile, in the Russian media, Sergei Medvedev discusses why the national media barely covered two tragedies that shook the Runet (the Russian Internet)—the mining disaster in Vorkuta and the murder of a four-year-old in Moscow.

Details: Economics

Russia’s Government Doesn’t See the Economic Downslide As a Threat

Details: 03 March 2016; Sergey Aleksashenko

In his latest comment on key developments impacting the Russian economy, Sergey Aleksashenko, nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former deputy chairman of the Russian Central Bank, reviews the government’s controversial efforts to battle the economic crisis.

Details: Politics

Novaya Gazeta’s Investigation: How Boris Nemtsov Was Murdered

Details: 02 March 2016

At the end of February, Novaya Gazeta published its investigation of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, one of the leaders of the Russian opposition, who was shot dead in the center of Moscow a year ago. Since Russian authorities are refusing to even question certain Chechen leaders who might be behind this assassination, we think it’s important that the details of this case, as well as the names of the likely perpetrators, are known in the West.

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