The State of Russia: What Comes Next?, 1st ed. 2015

Following the crisis in Ukraine, the Putin regime made political choices that will determine Russia's development for years to come. This cutting edge Pivot makes a key contribution to the debate on Russia's development and traces emerging trends in various spheres of Russian life, from the economy and foreign policy, to society and ideology.

List of Charts and Tables
Note on Contributors
Introduction; Maria Lipman and Nikolay Petrov
1. Post-Crimean Political Order; Boris Makarenko
2. The Russian Economy at the Start of the Post-Putin Era; Sergey Aleksashenko
3. The Relations Between the Center and the Regions; Natalia Zubarevich
4. Russia Reinvents Itself as a Rogue State in the Ungovernable Multi-Polar World; Pavel Baev
5. Putin ' 's Relapse Into Totalitarianism; Lev Gudkov
6. Putin ' 's ' 'Besieged Fortress ' ' and Its Ideological Arms; Maria Lipman
7. Conclusions; Maria Lipman and Nikolay Petrov
Index

Sergey Aleksashenko, Visiting Scholar, Georgetown University, USA Pavel Baev, Research Director and Research Professor, Peace Research Institute in Oslo (PRIO), Norway Lev Gudkov, Director of the Levada Center, Moscow, Russia Maria Lipman, Visiting Fellow, European Council of Foreign Relations, London, UK Boris Makarenko, Chairman of the Board of the Center for Political Technologies, and Professor at the Higher School of Economics, Russia Nikolay Petrov, Professor and Laboratory Head, Laboratory for Regional Development Assessment Methods, Higher School of Economics, Russia Natalia Zubarevich, Professor, Moscow State University and Director of the Regional Program, Independent Institute for Social Policy, Russia