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Published in: openEconomyThis crisis is no excuse for technocratic governmentIn the author's prescient May 2010 article there is the central observation that we are seeing a fundamental...
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Published in: oDRRussian economy: trying to please people doesn’t help20 years ago there was all to play for: the USSR was defunct and Russia was embarking on a bright future. But the...
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Published in: oDRPrivatisation, but no private propertyPrivatisation was one of the beacon words of Yeltsin’s presidency, but, with the possible exception of housing,...
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Published in: openSecurityArmed conflict, land grabs and big business: Colombia’s deadly pactThe recent assassination of Colombian marxist insurgent group leader Alfonso Cano has been hailed internationally as...
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Published in: oDRIs corruption in Russia's DNA?It is difficult to think back to a time when corruption was not endemic in Russia. It is now crippling the country,...
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Published in: oDRThe Russian banking system: between the market and the stateFor the last 20 years Russian attitudes to banks have been ambivalent. From no trust at all to feverish delight at...
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Published in: oDRRussian reforms, twenty years on
Dmitry Travin presents a new week-long series on openDemocracy Russia
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Published in: oDRKudrin’s warningRussia's ruling tandem have hung their economic policy high up on a mast: oil prices will hold, they say … and,...
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Published in: oDRBankruptcy and privatisation: the end of Lukashenka’s Belarus?
A failed economic model and falling transit subsidies from Russia have propelled the Belarusian economy to the...
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Published in: HomeThe road to Europe: the need for trans-European politics
The EU's crisis has been framed as an economic one, with the self-interest of individuals in nation states pitted...
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Published in: oDREpilogue: a minister fallsThe resignation of Russia's finance minister Aleksey Kudrin is a much more significant event than the Putin-Medvedev...
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Published in: openEconomyWhy the Euro is a force of political centralisation
This article was published 11 years ago in the Salisbury Review - then a small right-wing magazine edited by oD...
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Published in: HomeKarachi: reading between the lines
Kinship ties are crucial in Pakistan, not only for gaining political legitimacy but for maintaining power through...
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Published in: oDRMaking waves: the only way to improve Russia’s river fleetThe shock of the recent steamer tragedy on the Volga and the huge loss of life all too quickly moved off the front...
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Published in: oDRThe crisis of Russian modernisationIncreasingly, the idea of being a modern Russian means to be detached from Russia itself. The problem has long,...
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Published in: oDRUkraine oil rig deal: fat cats getting fatter?President Yanukovych makes a show of trying to root out corruption, but a recent government deal to buy an oil rig,...
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Published in: oDRSpringtime for Lukashenka?Effective opposition in Belarus has traditionally been limited by a limited sense of nationhood, a deeply controlled...
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Published in: openEconomyWho needs a bank?
Should we make banks better, or just make them redundant? Peer-to-peer currency schemes like bitcoin.org offer the...
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Published in: oDRWTO membership: confused by the double-headed eagleRussia has taken seventeen years of WTO negotiations to get to a stage that most candidate countries reach after...
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Published in: oDRUkraine: pain, but no grainUkraine is known as the breadbasket of Europe, but something very strange is going on in the grain market, writes...
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