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Explaining Eurasia

Archive for 2004

A Question of Diversity: Growth is High, But Narrow

By Ian Pryde on October 05, 2004 in Business, Economy, Energy, Oil, Russia

The search is clearly on for ways to buttress and increase growth in Russia’s economy. If GDP is to grow in accordance with targets set by President Vladimir Putin, doubling […]

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Big Help for Small Business: One Foreign Bank’s SME Loan Experience

By Ian Pryde on October 04, 2004 in Banking, Business, Economy, Russia

If Russia’s economy is going to develop more diversity, one of the most important factors will be the ability to create a strong sector of small and medium-sized enterprises that […]

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No Simple Case of Allegiance: Debunking the Radical Islam Stereotype in Central Asia

By Ian Pryde on September 16, 2004 in Central Asia, Economy, Islam, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Media, Russia, The West, Uzbekistan

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan – The bomb attacks in the Uzbek capital Tashkent in August once again appeared to raise the spectre of Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism in Central Asia. But to […]

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Crisis, What Crisis? The Banking Sector Weathers a Panicky Public

By Ian Pryde on August 02, 2004 in Banking, Economy, Russia

The Russian banking sector successfully weathered what might be described as a “pseudo-crisis” in early July, providing further evidence that the economy and financial system had developed to a point […]

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The Banking Sector’s False Alarm: Despite Changes in the System, Old Fears Are Hard to Overcome

By Ian Pryde on July 01, 2004 in Banking, Economy, Russia

The inter-bank liquidity crisis in June that followed the withdrawal of licenses from two banks for money laundering provoked, perhaps inevitably, much speculation about a banking crisis, and once again […]

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Arguing for Realism: How a lack of historical perspective distorts views of Russia’s development

By Ian Pryde on May 26, 2004 in Economy, Politics, Russia

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, the pendulum of domestic and international opinion on Russia has swung violently between irrational exuberance and irrational pessimism. […]

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Tonic for Fever

By Ian Pryde on February 01, 2004 in Economy, Politics, Property/Real Estate, Russia

Despite the slew of headline-grabbing news in recent months about the arrests of several of Russia’s leading businessmen, the failure of the pro-business liberal parties Yabloko and the Union of […]

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Upbeat Under Threat

By Ian Pryde on February 01, 2004 in Economy, Property/Real Estate, Russia

Despite the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky last year and the subsequent calls for the deprivatisation of property by some political parties such as Rodina, the real estate market has been […]

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