In the same address to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in which he predicted conflict with the West will continue after the war in Ukraine ends, Andrey Bezrukov argued that regardless of the outcome of that war, Moscow will likely lose part of Russia’s periphery over the following decade.

Many act as if the end of the war will return everything to the status quo ante, the MGIMO scholar says, but in fact overcoming the results of the war will be difficult and all the problems Russia had earlier will return, be even more acute and require increased efforts to prevent disaster (gumilev-center.ru/77005-2/).

Changing the Russian economy from a wartime one to a peacetime one is something a few Russians are beginning to talk about, Bezrukov says; but one of the most serious is likely to be........

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