. Inflation remains rampant and the currency continues to fall; unresolved economic challenges create economic and political … instability and could weaken the country’s security - in particular in light of Russia’s ambitions to expand its influence in the …

The purpose of this study is to explain the main sources of continued inflationary pressure in Russia and propose a … policy remedy to this situation. In the transition period Russia has gone through different monetary and exchange rate … and banking crisis in August 1998. Although annual inflation was brought back down to a moderate two-digit level (around …