<span class="vcard">Anders Åslund</span>

Anders Åslund

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Dr. Anders Åslund (@Anders_Aslund) is a senior fellow at the Stockholm Free World Forum and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. He is a leading specialist on economic policy in Russia, Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Dr. Åslund has served as an economic adviser to several governments, notably the governments of Russia and Ukraine. He has published widely and is the author of 15 books and has edited 16 books. His most recent book is Russia’s Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy (Yale UP 2019).

He was a professor at the Stockholm School of Economics and the founding director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics. He has worked at five Washington think tanks – the Atlantic Council, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Brookings Institution, and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies. He served as a Swedish diplomat in Kuwait, Poland, Geneva, and Moscow. He earned his PhD from Oxford University. He is a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

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Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu (L) speaks with his Belarus counterpart Viktor Khrenin (R) prior to a meeting with Belarus President Alexander Lukashenka in Minsk on February 3, 2022. The United States said on February 2, 2022 it was deploying thousands of troops to bolster NATO forces in eastern Europe, ratcheting up its military response to fears that Russia could invade Ukraine, as tensions have been further aggravated by plans for joint military exercises between Russia and neighboring Belarus, where Washington claims Moscow is preparing to send 30,000 troops. (Photo by MAXIM GUCHEK/BELTA/AFP via Getty Images)
A photographer kneels on the ground in front of two cars to take a photo of one of them. The cars, a 2015 Ferrari LaFerrari and a 2010 Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4 Coupe model car, sit stationary on a brick road. People walk past in the background. The cars are part of an auction preview by sales house Bonhams of sport cars belonging to the son of the Equatorial Guinea's President.on September 28, 2019 at the Bonmont Abbey in Cheserex, western Switzerland.
People work at sewing machines in rows at a textile-manufacturing company in Batumi, Georgia’s Black Sea.
A person watches an investigation film by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow on January 21, 2021.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky leaves a search and rescue ship in the port city of Mariupol on June 15, 2019, after a military exercises in the Sea of Azov.

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