About Dmitry Travin
Dmitry Travin is Research Director at the European University in St. Petersburg's Centre of Modernization Studies.
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The first eight years of the last decade were incredibly successful for Russia’s economy, but the crisis of 2008 hit hard and growth remains decidedly sluggish. Dmitry Travin wonders whether the country’s economy will ever be able to regain the Midas touch.
As the Russian government tries to put together its budget plan for 2013-2015, it is clear that it cannot possibly meet all its pre-election promises. Dmitry Travin looks at the financial crisis facing the country (photo RIA Novosti Agency).
As Putin’s new
government beds in and shows its teeth against the protesters, Dmitry Travin
takes a look at the generational differences among the opposition. Life experience makes many of the older generation more weary of street protest, yet on other fronts people are beginning to speak with one voice. 
Russia's ruling tandem have hung their economic policy high up on a mast: oil prices will hold, they say … and, well, even if they do drop, dwindling reserves should just about cover it. As ex-Finance Minister Kudrin realised, this is a foolish game that runs the risk of total catastrophe, writes Dmitry Travin.This week's editor
Europe from the bottom up
European debate
Democratic Wealth
Nuclear non-proliferation
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Mali - the plot thickens
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Remote control war
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