The Last Six Years? Russia's Post-Election Political Economy

In the 18 years since Putin first assumed power, Russia has undergone many dramatic changes in its foreign policy, its economy, and across all facets of social life — yet the president still calls for stability.
What will he do next? Will he change the constitution, step down, or find some other means of retaining power? Even as Putin faces this political dilemma, he must also address Russia's stagnant economy, still dependent on oil exports, still under harsh Western sanctions. Russia's economy is growing slower than rivals such as the US or Europe, falling further behind the West in economic terms. Can the Kremlin fix its economy while maintaining its well-regarded macroeconomic stability? Will Putin's new term as president lead to policies that revitalize Russia, or is the country stuck with many more years of economic stagnation and political repression? Please join Martin Gilman (Professor of Economics at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, and former Head of the International Monetary Fund in Moscow) and Chris Miller (Assistant Professor of International History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and Director of Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Program) to discuss stability and change in Russia’s political economy. Chris Miller is Assistant Professor of International History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He is also the Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Program. His research examines Russian history and political economy. He is the author of Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia (2018) and The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR (2016). He received his PhD from Yale University and his BA from Harvard University. Martin Gilman is Professor of Economics and Advisor to the Rector at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow since he retired from the International Monetary Fund after 25 years in 2006. From June 1993, Gilman was the advisor from the IMF policy department on the negotiating missions in Russia, and then moved to Russia in November 1996 as head of the IMF’s Moscow Office. He returned to Washington in 2002 as Assistant Director in the policy department where he was responsible for sovereign debt issues and was the IMF’s representative to the Paris Club. He is the author of the book, No Precedent, No Plan: Inside Russia's 1998 Default (MIT Press). He attended the University of Pennsylvania, Sciences Po (Paris), SAIS, and received his PhD from the London School of Economics. Moderator 
Yuval Weber, Ph.D.Daniel Morgan Graduate School - Kennan Institute FellowGlobal Fellow, Woodrow Wilson CenterCenter Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard UniversityAssistant Professor, Higher School of Economics (Moscow)Twitter: @yuvalweber  
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