When Capitalism Met Autocracy: Russia’s Lost Promise and America’s Warning - WhoWhatWhy

When Capitalism Met Autocracy: Russia’s Lost Promise and America’s Warning - WhoWhatWhy

As the world awaits the outcome of high-level negotiations over Putin’s land-grab in Ukraine, it’s worth remembering there was a brief, intoxicating moment when Russia seemed poised to become something entirely different — a market democracy integrated into the global economy. That window slammed shut not by accident, but by design. Charles Hecker, former Moscow Times journalist and author of Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia…