Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich; Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), George Washington University; Center for Eastern European Studies (CEES), University of Zurich; German Association for East European Studies (DGO)
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Abstract
The articles in this edition focuses on 1) the efforts of the Kremlin to ensure a smooth run-up to the 2018 Russian Presidential election, noting that its major challenges still lie ahead; 2) Russia's slow pace of economic recovery in 2017, suggesting that the characterisation of the Russian economy as stagnant may not hold for some areas of the economy; and 3) how a key aim of Russian foreign policy in 2017 was to assert its role in several international crises, and that whilst this short-term aim has more or less been achieved, the success of Moscow’s long-term strategy to develop a broad-range of global relationships remains uncertain.ISSN:1863-042
