Author: Ilya Matveev

Ilya Matveev is a PhD student in political science at the European University at St Petersburg, Russia. He studies Russian political economy and neoliberalism in comparative perspective. He is an editor of an online platform Openleft.ru and a member of the Public Sociology Laboratory."

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The big game: Ulyukaev, Sechin and Russia’s neopatrimonial privatisation

Ilya Matveev// Nov. 21, 2016// OpenDemocracy-Russia The arrest of a federal minister shows that, in Russia, the government and the country’s largest state company are increasingly turning to force. Russia’s Minister of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukaev arrives at Moscow’s Basmanny Court. (c) Maksim Blinov / RIA Novosti. Last week, for the first time in Russia’s […]

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Taking Glazyev’s Plan Seriously

MINSK, BELARUS. OCTOBER 10, 2014. Russian president Vladimir Putin, presidential aide Sergei Glazyev (R-L front) and foreign minister Sergei Lavrov (background) at a session of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council at the level of heads of states at Minsk's Palace of Independence. Mikhail Metzel /TASS Белоруссия. Минск. 10 октября. Советник президента РФ Сергей Глазьев, президент России Владимир Путин (слева направо на первом плане) и министр иностранных дел РФ Сергей Лавров (на втором плане) в перерыве заседания Высшего Евразийского экономического совета на уровне глав государств во Дворце Независимости. Михаил Метцель/ТАСС

Despite its anti-neoliberal character, Sergei Glazyev’s proposed economic reforms are in the interests of elites and not the population. Sergei Glazyev, the Russian economist and adviser to Putin, is increasingly in the news. He often speaks of “urgent measures” to help overcome the crisis, jump start economic growth and propel a technological leap forward. Liberals […]