The economic and financial crisis in Russia – background, symptoms and prospects for the future. OSW Report 02/2015
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2015

The crisis in Russia’s financial market, which started in mid-December 2014, has exposed the real scale of the economic problems that have been growing in Russia for several years. Over the course of the last year, Russia’s basic macroeconomic indicators deteriorated considerably, the confidence of its citizens in the state and in institutions in charge of economic stability declined, the government and business elites became increasingly dissatisfied with the policy direction adopted by the Kre