No. 164: Economic Challenges: Weak Ruble, Unstructured Monotowns

No. 164: Economic Challenges: Weak Ruble, Unstructured Monotowns

Author(s): Stephen Crowley, Philip Hanson
Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 164
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University
Publication Year: 2015

This edition examines some of the economic challenges currently facing Russia. Firstly, Philip Hanson assesses the ruble's dramatic fall vis-à-vis other currencies, arguing that among the many causes, the causal chain \
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