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 […]
Read MoreThe 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 […]
Read MoreSince 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. […]
Read MoreDespite 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 […]
Read MoreDespite 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 […]
Read MoreAcross the board, the Moscow real estate market is on the up. Significant developments in eh retail and office markets mean that the city has moved out of the shadow […]
Read MoreLetter to the Editor by Ian Pryde in response to “Democracy Is Not a Priority for Putin,” an article by Ian Bremmer, the Founder of the Eurasia Group. Bremmer’s article […]
Read MoreAbstract Russia’s contradictory reality does not accord with the conceptual categories of “success” or “failure” often used in scholarly and journalistic assessments of the country’s post-Soviet development. A broader approach […]
Read MoreFollowing Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov’s announcement in July that all Russian enterprises must switch to international accounting standards from Jan. 1, 2004, demand for Western-style auditing in Russia looks set […]
Read MoreThe local information technology market looks set to mature over the next few years as companies switch their spending away from hardware to software and IT services, repeating the pattern […]
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