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Articles by Vladislav Inozemtsev

opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

What Will Shake Russians' Apathy Toward the War?

In an atomized society, individuals are almost exclusively concerned with their personal interests. It is only once those interests are threatened that...
4 Min read
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Russia's Eurasian Alliances Are Unraveling. We Must Use That To Our Advantage

Undermining the Eurasian project is a task that can bring maximum benefits to the free world at a minimal cost.
4 Min read
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev and Dmitry Gudkov and Dmitry Nekrasov

Let 3 Million Russians Come to Europe – And Take 500 Billion Euros Out of Putin's Pockets

The West should view the treatment of Russian diasporas in the context of economic rather than political struggle against Putin’s dictatorship.
4 Min read
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Sanction the Right People in Russia

The people who proclaim themselves to be the authors of the "Putin Doctrine" remain untouched by Western sanctions.
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Russia's Third Cold War

We cannot separate what is happening now from the previous “cold wars” or the obvious lessons to be learned from them.
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Russia’s Quarantine Is Over, But the Pandemic Isn’t

Public health indicators all point to it being far too early for the end of lockdown, but politics prevailed.
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Russia's Confused Coronavirus Response

The authorities pretend that they are leading, while the people try to pretend that they are following orders.
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Pessimism Sweeps Russia

The situation is somewhat more complicated than the ruled losing faith in their rulers. Russia’s rulers also seem to be losing faith in themselves.
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Russia’s Mysterious Pension Reform (Op-ed)

Pension reform is unpopular and politically dangerous, so why is the Kremlin suddenly determined to implement it?
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

No Quick Fix for Russian Economy (Op-Ed)

This year got off to a bad start. Oil prices fell to below $30 per barrel and a budget deficit of at least 5 percent seemed inevitable. But now Russia's...
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

A Struggling Ukraine Is Bad News for Russians

As a Muscovite, it seemed to me in 2004 that the events unfolding in Ukraine would determine the future of Russia.
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Putin at the UN: Sorting Optimism From Reality (Op-Ed)

President Vladimir Putin's speech before the UN General Assembly this coming Monday has every chance of becoming the main Russian foreign policy event...
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Putin Is Waking Up From Chinese Pipe Dream

Russia's President Vladimir Putin is currently in Beijing to attend a celebration of the 70th anniversary of Allied Powers' victory over Japan in World...
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Russia Is Following the Belarussian Example

Belarus has taken many dubious and even strange steps in recent years that Russia has dutifully emulated like a devoted pupil.
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

EU Can Win the Battle for Its Eastern Neighbors

The Eastern Partnership summit began in Riga yesterday. It brings together six former Soviet republics that are striving, in various degrees, to cooperate...
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Russia Should Rethink Victory Day

Russia needs to rethink how it celebrates Victory Day, writes columnist Vladislav Inozemtsev.
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Russians Must Say No to Isolation, Yes to Europe

Last spring, after Russia annexed Crimea and began intervening in eastern Ukraine, the United States and the European Union introduced sanctions against...
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Russia Must Stop Glorifying War in Ukraine

The ruble's rapid collapse at the end of 2014 — and the resulting rush to buy foreign currency, the mobs of shoppers snatching up consumer goods...
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Putin's Speech Fails to Inspire

The American people can have faith that the system works and that these words will lead to the promised actions. Not so in Russia.
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

How Europeans Can Punish Putin for MH17

Putin should know that Western civil society will mobilize its resources against his course.
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

The Ruble's Senseless and Harmful Devaluation

This time will not be another 1998, when the sharp drop in the ruble's value led to growth.
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Russia Is on a Road to Nowhere

Russia's reversal away from the West, which started in 2012, is a dead-end manuever because Russia cannot survive without the outside world, writes...
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Putin's Ukraine Gambit Isn't Unprecedented

In both instances, the  fears of a small group decided the foreign policy of a world power.
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Why Economic Growth Doesn't Matter in Russia

Russia is unique among developed countries in that the rate of economic growth changes neither the behavior of elites nor the population's loyalty...
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Russia Pivoted East Centuries Ago

President Vladimir Putin's recent visit to China, made amid worsening relations with the West, has been perceived in the broader context of the search...
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

A Subtle Similarity Between Hitler and Putin

Although Putin's domestic policies seem tame compared to Hitler's, his foreign policy could be just as disruptive.
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Sanction Crimea, Not the Kremlin

The conflict between Russia and the Western world has created a complicated dilemma.
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Yanukovych Is Resisting the Irresistible

Authorities must now prove their legitimacy on a daily basis. Money and force cannot control the political movements of this global era.
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

The Kremlin's Mega-Bridges to Nowhere

Huge, state-financed infrastructure projects do little to boost the economy. For every ruble the state spends, only 40 kopeks remain in the economy...
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Russia Declares New 'Cold War' in Its Far North

If Russia initiates a full-scale drive to develop its far north, it will likely break the economy.
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

A Smarter Way to Fight Corruption

Instead of the Magnitsky Act, the U.S. should help the Kremlin engage Russian civil society in the battle against corruption.
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

More Respect for Russia Would Go a Long Way

The measure of wisdom for a great power like the U.S. is its ability to treat large, influential partners like Russia as equals.
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

How to Improve Special Economic Zones

Special economic zones are a standard method of incorporating the economy of a newly industrialized country into the global economy. But Russia does not...
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Creating a Two-Party System

The presidential election on March 4 was crucial for Russia, a country that many observers believed was on the brink of a "color revolution." There...
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

In Favor of Simple Solutions To Solve the Euro Crisis

The world is rapidly entering a period of economic turbulence. Governments all over the world that poured billions of dollars, pounds and euros into failing...
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Revisiting Island of Stability

It might seem that the current economic downturn will be a repeat of 2008. As that crisis was quickly spreading around the world in early 2008, Russian...
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Manufacturing Your Way to Modernization

The past 20 years have seen a rethinking of many assumptions that were considered indisputable in the early 1990s. Francis Fukuyama's "end of history"...
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Shortest Route From China to Russia Is Via EU

Russia's economic development has faced many challenges over the past two decades, but upgrading the country's infrastructure remains one of the most...
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

No Ride Up the Career Ladder

It is telling that the Agency for Strategic Initiatives that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin plans to create was unveiled during the same Volgograd speech...
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Why Investors Are Shivering

President Dmitry Medvedev publicly acknowledged last week what everyone has known for two decades: The investment climate in Russia is bad. While the measures...
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Standing Up to Dictators

Today, when the abuse of power is becoming more prevalent, Russia, the United States, the European Union and other global leaders should unite forces...
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

Modernization Is Not Perestroika

We are now at the two-year mark of President Dmitry Medvedev’s modernization program, and if you look at where perestroika was two years after it was...
opinion Vladislav Inozemtsev

European Standard for Russia’s Modernization

Amid all of the talk of modernization, the Russian economy is gradually changing, but it is doing so despite government modernization policies and programs...