CASE Policy Briefs, Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia, economic policy, Macroeconomics and macroeconomic policy, Post-communist transition and development issues, post-crisis, Russia

Challenges of Post-Crisis Economic Policy in Russia

The 2008-2009 global financial crisis hit Russia’s economy harder than many other emerging markets and Russia turned out to be an “outlier” within the BRIC countries.
As early as the first half of 2009, the situation in both Russia’s real and financial sector stabilized. This leaves several questions to be analyzed in further detail. One, what are Russia’s current economic policy challenges? And two, what are the problems and constraints of post‐crisis development?