U.S. Questions Russian Intentions

... impressive gains. In part this was a hydrocarbon economy but not only. EPA / SERGEI CHIRIKOV Igor Istomin: Unraveling the Enigma: Western Expert Community Seeks to Explain Russian Policy There were other reasons, including first-stage liberalizing economic reforms that happened during the first term of President Putin. We feel that this was in Russia’s interests, and we feel that a second stage of such economic modernization domestically would also be in Russia’s interests. We feel that it would ...