Anders Åslund, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, is the author of The Last Shall Be the First: The East European Financial Crisis, 2008-10.
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Anders Åslund
Commentaries by Anders Åslund
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Ukraine’s Revolt of the Oligarchs
KYIV – Ukraine’s parliamentary election on October 28 will be neither free nor fair. After eight unproductive years since the 2004 Orange Re…
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Putin’s Bad-Neighbor Policy
WASHINGTON, DC – Russia has shown itself to be an international spoiler with its ardent support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The co…
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The Snow Revolution’s Orange Shadow
MOSCOW – Vladimir Putin’s regime is warning Russians that their budding “Snow Revolution” will be as big a mistake as Ukraine’s Orange Revol…
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The Wobbly West
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA – Early in the financial crisis, a major emerging-market investor told me: “This is not a global, but a semi-glob…
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New Europe’s Surprising Resilience
KIEV – Two years ago, five of the ten new East European members of the European Union – the three Baltic states, Hungary, and Romania – appe…
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The Return of the Siloviki
STOCKHOLM – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin recently announced that Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan have abandoned their separate talk…
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Russia's Coming Financial Crash
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the whole world is being hit by a tremendous financial crisis, but Russia is facing a perfect storm. The Russian sto…
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Ukraine’s Dollar Addiction
KYIV – Inflation in Ukraine is skyrocketing. By March, it reached 26% per year and continues to rise. Although prices are increasing around …
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Putin’s Last Stand
WASHINGTON – On April 2-4, NATO will hold its biggest summit ever in Bucharest, the capital of its new member, Romania. Incredibly, NATO has…
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Putinomics
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Vladimir Putin turned Russia’ parliamentary election into a referendum on himself – and won by a lands…
Ukraine’s Revolt of the Oligarchs
Vitalii Moshnikov: Mr. Yanukovich is only the face of Ukrainian main tycoons who rule the country, indeed they dont want to live in Europe, and they will do all posible to stay in a present non-democratic country. The r…
Putin’s Bad-Neighbor Policy
Iderle Jean-Pierre: Is there an editor at work here? Level of ignorance of the author is quite surprising!