Category: 2. Editor’s Choice

Call it the Laundromat. It’s a complex system for laundering more than $20 billion in Russian money stolen from the government by corrupt politicians or earned through organized crime activity. It was designed to not only move money from…

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Here’s a look at the 2008 military conflict between Russia and Georgia.

The conflict centered on South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two…

Source: Carnegie

Abstract

This paper examines the problems of Russia’s post-communist economic transformation. Its main thesis is that the Russian attempt at radical economic reform largely failed, because of extraordinary rent-seeking by old…