We analyze the specific predicament of Russian software engineers and hackers in Russia and abroad, their communities …

This handbook is a comprehensive up-to-date study of the Russian economy. Russian and Western authors analyze the …

economy, especially in the hinterlands, with few signs of a possible turnaround. What accounted for these changes in Russia … himself, even more than external factors such as the sharp fall in oil prices or Western sanctions after Russia’s annexation … free media. In the economic realm, Putin effectively undermined Russia’s still-emerging and very fragile system for …