Anders Åslund

U.S. economist, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council

Anders Åslund

Шведско-американский экономист и дипломат, ведущий международный эксперт по вопросам национальных экономик Украины, России и стран бывшего СССР. Имеет образование Стокгольмского университета, Стокгольмской экономической школы и Оксфордского университета.

Профессор Джорджтаунского университета, советник многочисленных правительственных и экономических организаций, старший научный сотрудник Atlantic Council.

Автор книг Россия после кризиса, Украина: что пошло не так и как это исправить и многих других.

Википедия Твиттер

War expenditures are hurting Russia’s economy — opinion

Russia’s official growth rates have been confusing since it started the full-scale war on February 24, 2022. In 2022, Russia’s GDP fell by only 1.2%, and in 2023 it grew by 3.6% and the official growth is likely to be similar in 2024.

17 January 2025, 10:50 PM 475

Will the Ukrainian economy survive Russia's war of attrition? - opinion

Ukraine has already answered that question

21 April 2023, 01:31 PM 446

Putin the Pariah: War crimes arrest warrant deepens Russia’s isolation

On March 17, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague indicted Russian President Vladimir Putin and issued an arrest warrant. This indictment is likely to have far-reaching consequences for Putin personally and for Russia.

22 March 2023, 01:05 PM 325

Will Ukraine invasion condemn Putin to place among Russia’s worst rulers?

Vladimir Putin refuses to admit defeat in Ukraine. On September 21, he announced plans for a partial mobilization while also vowing to annex large swathes of Ukraine and threatening to defend his gains with nuclear weapons. This latest show of strength cannot disguise the grim realities of Putin’s rapidly unraveling invasion. Seven months after Russian tanks first crossed the border, his depleted and deeply demoralized army has ground to a halt and the military initiative has passed decisively to the advancing Ukrainians.

27 September 2022, 01:05 PM 461

Europe can win Putin’s gas war but must learn Nord Stream lessons

Vladimir Putin’s Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines are dead and buried or “tot und begraben” as the German saying goes, but the Nord Stream debacle must not be forgotten. With Russia now dropping all pretense and openly declaring that it will not renew gas deliveries to the EU until sanctions are scrapped, it is vital to learn the lessons from Europe’s earlier refusal to recognize the Kremlin’s weaponization of energy exports.

9 September 2022, 01:50 PM 1001

Ukraine’s six key conditions for peace talks with Putin’s Russia

A series of audacious recent Ukrainian attacks in occupied Crimea and across the Russian border in Belgorod have signaled a new stage in the war, with Ukraine increasingly seizing the initiative and setting the military agenda.

25 August 2022, 01:01 PM 2170

Russia’s invasion has highlighted Ukraine’s nation-building progress

 Ukraine has made tremendous progress during its three decades as an independent state.

19 August 2022, 01:45 AM 211

Vladimir Putin’s dark journey from economic reformer to war criminal

Vladimir Putin’s 22-year reign has been marked by a steady decline in the goals he has set for himself and his country.

20 June 2022, 10:40 AM 710

Russia’s war on global food security

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine is also a war on global food security. In February 2022, Russia blockaded all of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, through which all its bulk exports were being shipped. The ports remain closed, with no opening in sight.

4 June 2022, 10:52 AM 251

Possible consequences of the defeat of Putin

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is about to face a resounding defeat in Ukraine.

27 May 2022, 05:52 PM 2603

Western advocates of appeasement need a crash course in Putinology

The war in Ukraine has exposed the fundamental failure of Western audiences to appreciate the true nature of modern Russia.

16 May 2022, 10:21 PM 1136

Putin’s Failed State

Ukraine's recent successes in repelling Russian forces have highlighted the sclerosis of Russia's supposedly formidable military. 

9 April 2022, 10:45 AM 781

Russian contempt for Ukraine paved the way for Putin’s disastrous invasion

As the historic scale of Russian losses in Ukraine becomes increasingly apparent, debate is raging over how Putin’s invasion could possibly have gone so badly wrong. 

4 April 2022, 10:54 AM 914

Russia Must Pay Reparations

Vladimir Putin's war of aggression in Ukraine offers ample grounds for G7 countries to seize Russian assets within their jurisdictions to finance postwar reconstruction. These funds should be administered through a new multilateral body to ensure full transparency and sound public procurement.

25 March 2022, 04:03 PM 1025

Why Vladimir Putin is losing the information war to Ukraine

Vladimir Putin has long enjoyed a reputation as a master of information warfare. Over the past decade, his weaponization of social media and aggressive promotion of fake narratives have proven pivotal in a range of landmark achievements such as the 2014 seizure of Crimea and the 2016 election of Donald Trump.

7 March 2022, 11:38 AM 644

Putin has seriously wounded Ukraine’s economy without firing a single shot

Even without launching his threatened full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is already causing the country great economic losses. The West cannot stand by and watch this happen. Indeed, the economic front in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War is just as decisive as the military front and demands equal international attention.

18 February 2022, 11:03 AM 279

Retired Russian generals criticize Putin over Ukraine, renew call for his resignation — US economist

The chairman of the All-Russian Officers’ Assembly, retired General-Colonel Leonid Ivashov, published an appeal on his organization’s website on Jan. 31 to “the President and Citizens of the Russian Federation.” 

13 February 2022, 10:55 AM 508

Putin’s threatened invasion is already hitting the Ukrainian economy hard

While the world waits to see if Vladimir Putin will proceed with his threatened invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s menacing military posture is already hitting the Ukrainian economy hard.

26 January 2022, 10:34 AM 228

What will Putin get?

The EU’s response to the Kremlin's outright gas blackmail will not be long in coming.

13 January 2022, 05:38 AM 49