Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label “Russia’s imperialism”

The Political Logic of Russia’s Imperialism

According to the political economist Ilya Matveev (2021), Russian imperialism transitioned from the economic logic to the territorial logic around the year 2014, when the Russian state resigned from the strategy of expanding private businesses to Ukraine and other post-Soviet republics and started waging political control over these territories even at the expense of the interests of private capital.