There Goes Russia’s Neighborhood
Source: http://www.robertamsterdam.com/2009/08/there_goes_russias_neighborhood.htmPosted on Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 | In Market Commentary, Russia
From yesterday’s Vladimir Ryzhkov column in the Moscow Times:
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s attempt to restore Russia’s influence
over the former Soviet republics has failed miserably. Moscow’s
standing in the region is weaker now than it was even eight years ago,
when Putin took over the presidency from Boris Yeltsin. This is a
direct result of Putin’s failed policies during his two terms as
president — the inability to modernize the economy, the systemic
destruction of the country’s democracy, the sharp rise in corruption
and the increase in the monopoly control of key industries under his
state capitalism model. If you add to all of this a countless string of
inept foreign policy disasters, it is easy to understand why Russia’s
neighbors have turned their backs on Moscow and are looking to Western
military, economic and political institutions for support and
cooperation.
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