Valdai Club

Arnaud Gouillon

Igor Gretskiy

Andrei Grozin

Kira Godovanyuk

Xing Guangcheng

Thomas Greminger

Alexei Grivach

Ruslan Grinberg

Tatiana Gladenkova

Ruslan Grinberg

Russian Federation

Director, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Member, RAS.

Materials

BRICS Summit in Ufa. Expert Analysis

Ufa hosted the BRICS Summit on July 8-9. Experts have discussed the results of the summit, the decisions made and the prospects of BRICS.

Does Russia have a non-energy future?

The Anglo-Saxon world is overcoming the crisis with difficulty, because it has been paying hypertrophied attention to the financial sector, which in the past thirty years has gone from being the assistant of the real economy to being its master. Many countries are already starting to realize this, but they are finding it very difficult to limit the monopoly of financial oligarchs.

UEFA Euro 2012 and the London Olympics: Lessons for Russia

It is clear that sports facilities in Sochi and London have different pay-off periods and that in London the return on investment is faster. Sochi may have problems in this respect but we are ready to provide financial backing. In terms of prestige the Olympics in Sochi mean probably even more for us than the London Games did for the UK.

We Should Not Expect a Second Wave of the Economic Crisis in Russia

Right now there are all indications that no plunge in oil prices is on the cards. Slow economic growth is not a recession. Speculations concerning a second wave of the crisis are about a potential recession. But no recession is in view.