To what extent is deoffshorization in the Russian Federation successful in combating the use of offshore jurisdictions?
Journal: City Research Online (City University London)
Year: 2026

This thesis investigates the deoffshorization process in the Russian Federation, an initiative launched to fight the use of offshore jurisdictions. This initiative arose as a policy direction in 2012 when President V. Putin announced the necessity of developing a system of measures to deoffshorize the Russian economy in response to the growing concerns about capital outflow to offshore jurisdictions. As deoffshorization emerged as a self-defined policy direction, the existing research has predom