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Irina Yasina
Irina Yasina is an analyst at the Institute of Transitional Economy, a weekly economic commentator for RIA Novosti, and a representative of the Open Russia Foundation.
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Is Russia’s Economic Crisis Over?
Irina Yasina Series: A Window on Russia 2010-01-29It is not yet certain whether the engine of the global economy will be able to run without additional liquidity, possibly undermining fiscal stability worldwide. Elsewhere, that will become clear in the first half of 2010; in Russia, signs of recovery, if they appear at all, will lag well behind the rest of the world.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 3496 -
Putinism in Crisis
Irina Yasina Series: A Window on Russia 2008-12-29Intellectual debate in Russia nowadays is dominated by the question of whether the current economic crisis will bring a new wave of liberalization. But, while economic hard times can be endured more easily if accompanied by a feeling of approaching freedom, for the time being, that feeling remains a ghost.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 10172

