Dmitri Travin

Dmitri Travin is Research Director at the European University in St. Petersburg's Centre of Modernization Studies

What's stopping Russia’s reforms?

When Soviet power ended, it went through a period of precipitant change. But more recently, reform has ground to a halt. Why has this happened? Economic reform has been through

By Dmitri Travin

/ 27 Jul 2008

Russia: how to spend the petrodollars?

While many people in Russia have profited from the high price of oil and gas and the influx of petrodollars from abroad, others have been losing out. The losers include

By Dmitri Travin

/ 15 Jul 2008

Russia: where are the petrodollars going?

For the first time in years, inflation was oneveryone's minds in the autumn of 2007. We thought it was a thing of the past.The 1990's

By Dmitri Travin

/ 25 Jun 2008