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		<title>European voters wise to back austerity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anders Aslund</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[austerity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to what most of the loud media commentary would have us believe, financial "austerity" or fiscal responsibility appears popular. Angela Merkel's success is proof.]]></description>
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		<title>IMF needs to resist pressure for fiscal loosening</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anders Aslund</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Monetary Fund must resist pressure from its managing director and its chief economist to ease fiscal policy for countries in crisis.]]></description>
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		<title>Putin&#8217;s bad neighbor policy reaps poor harvest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anders Aslund</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia has shown itself to be an international spoiler with its ardent support for Syrian President Bashar Assad. The contrast with its benign policy toward Libya in 2011 reflects how Russian foreign policy changed with the return of Vladimir Putin to the Kremlin. On foreign policy, at least, Russia&#8217;s former president, Dmitry Medvedev, mattered more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snow Revolution&#8217;s orange shadow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anders Aslund</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin&#8217;s regime is warning Russians that their budding &#8220;Snow Revolution&#8221; will be as big a mistake as Ukraine&#8217;s Orange Revolution of 2004. But, while the similarities between these two popular movements are palpable, their differences are essential, so comparing them might help the Russian opposition to avoid some mistakes. Like the Snow Revolution, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Financial repression&#8217; and other remedies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anders Aslund</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Early in the financial crisis, a major emerging-market investor told me: &#8220;This is not a global, but a semi-global financial crisis.&#8221; He was right: it really was a crisis of the United States, Europe and Japan. Among emerging markets, only Eastern Europe was badly hit. Indeed, the crisis marks the emerging economies&#8217; overtaking of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putin&#8217;s &#8216;siloviki&#8217; move to resume command</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anders Aslund</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[STOCKHOLM &#8212; Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin recently announced that Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan have abandoned their separate talks to join the World Trade Organization. Instead, they would seek to enter the world trade body as a single customs union. In effect, this means that Russia seems to be casting aside its accession to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia entering third act of financial tragedy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anders Aslund</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8212; The whole world is being hit by a tremendous financial crisis, but Russia is facing a perfect storm. The Russian stock market is in free fall, plummeting by 60 percent since May 19, for a loss of &#36;900 billion. And the plunge is accelerating. As a result, Russia&#8217;s economic growth is likely to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last stand before Russia&#8217;s next chance</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2008/03/30/commentary/last-stand-before-russias-next-chance/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=last-stand-before-russias-next-chance</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anders Aslund</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8212; On Wednesday through Friday, NATO will hold its biggest summit ever in Bucharest, the capital of its new member, Romania. Incredibly, NATO has invited its fiercest critic, Russian President Vladimir Putin, to attend. For the first time since 2002, he will. His presence is an embarrassment to NATO, but an even greater disgrace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unlike Yeltsin, Putin has luck on his side</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2007/05/03/commentary/unlike-yeltsin-putin-has-luck-on-his-side/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=unlike-yeltsin-putin-has-luck-on-his-side</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 00:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anders Aslund</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8212; Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s assertive foreign policy stance of recent years reflects the confidence that comes with a booming economy. In 1999, the year before Putin succeeded Boris Yeltsin as president, Russia&#8217;s GDP was a paltry $200 billion. By last year, it had reached $1 trillion. Real growth has averaged 7 percent for [...]]]></description>
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