The real Russian economy
LBS's Sergei Guriev and the Financial Times' Martin Sandbu discuss what is really going in the Russian economy
London Business School's Dean Sergei Guriev has appeared on the FT's The Economics Show podcast episode: ‘The real Russian economy. With Sergei Guriev’ .
Joining the FT's European economics commentator, Martin Sandbu, Professor Guriev discussed one of the biggest geopolitical questions of the moment - the war in Ukraine and how to stop it.
The war in Ukraine is a humanitarian crisis. It is also an economic problem. Sanctions from the US and Europe are meant to make war too expensive for Russia to continue. President Vladimir Putin claims those sanctions have failed and his economy is strong. But what is propaganda and what is reality?
Martin Sandbu poses these questions to Sergei Guriev, who was a former economic adviser to Russian opposition figures, and the two try to establish what is really going on in Russia’s economy.
The full transcript of this discussion, together with a link to the podcast, can be found here
