Sergei Guriev

Paris Institute of Political Studies

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Russian scholar and Visiting Professor of Economics at the Paris Institute of Political Studies; former Morgan Stanley Professor of Economics and a Rector at the New Economic School in Moscow until he resigned in April, 2013 and fled to France

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Power and Amnesty in Putin's Russia

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Today brought the release of the two remaining members of the punk protest band Pussy Riot from Russian prison.

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