Assessing the Impact of Sanctions

The Cipher Brief sat down with economist Anders Aslund, a former advisor to Russia and Ukraine. Aslund discussed Russia’s economic problems and the state of the current business climate.

TCB: Companies operating in frontier markets like Russia are used to the ups and downs and periods of uncertainty. To what extent is what we’re seeing in Russia–sanctions and a period of prolonged tension with the West–the “new normal?”