Kirill Rogov: "The Cry of a Patriot"

“It just so happens that in recent years Vladimir Putin has become a real economic disaster for Russia.

We had the opportunity to use the country's transit position. There will be no transit (see below). There were plans to use the opportunities of a single economic space and an economic union - it will not bring us dividends, rather the opposite - due to the asymmetry of the current trade regimes with the outside world of Belarus and Kazakhstan on the one hand and the Russian Federation on the other. We won’t even have a meaningful commodity economy, because the technology gap in the oil sector (due to lack of investment and technological sanctions) and Russia’s unreliability as a supplier in the gas sector send us to the margins of energy markets.”