Jacques Sapir — Putin, the economy and sovereignty

Analysis of Putin's recent policy speech on the Russian economy and Russian economic policy. 

Putin knows where he wants to go. The question is how achievable the plans and objectives may be, and in what timeframe they can be implemented in the face of a lumbering nomenklatura. However, sanctions provide urgency, and that is an unintended advantage gifted to Russia.

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Putin, the economy and sovereignty

Jacques Sapir

Translated by Anne-Marie de Grazia