Sergey Aleksashenko

Sergey Aleksashenko was a nonresident senior fellow in Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution. Former deputy chairman of the Central Bank of Russia and former chairman of Merrill Lynch Russia, he focuses on transition process in CIS and Eastern Europe, monetary policy and international financial infrastructure.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy reacts at his party's headquarters after a parliamentary election in Kiev, Ukraine July 21, 2019. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko - RC1A42CA5120

Parliamentary elections in Ukraine and 4 questions for President Zelensky

Sergey Aleksashenko

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Ukrainian comic actor and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy flashes a victory sign as his wife Olena reacts following the announcement of the first exit poll in a presidential election at his campaign headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine March 31, 2019. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko - RC1FE0F095A0

Ukraine’s elections: Can Zelensky lead a transformation?

Sergey Aleksashenko

Monday, April 1, 2019

A Russian flag flies atop the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Seattle, Washington, U.S., March 26, 2018. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson - RC180F6AD9D0

What Russia can learn from the Pecora Commission

Sergey Aleksashenko

Thursday, November 8, 2018

A view shows a Russian one rouble coin in this picture illustration taken October 26, 2018. Picture taken October 26, 2018. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov - RC1A673EAF30

The Russian economy: Short-term resilience, long-term stagnation?

Sergey Aleksashenko

Thursday, November 8, 2018

Putin's Counterrevolution front cover

Putin’s Counterrevolution

By Sergey Aleksashenko

2018

A man holds a placard depicting Russian President and Presidential candidate Vladimir Putin during a rally and concert marking the fourth anniversary of Russia's annexation of the Crimea region, at Manezhnaya Square in central Moscow, Russia March 18, 2018. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE. - RC113BAB08A0

One more term for Putin: Dark ambition, dim hopes

Sergey Aleksashenko

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Russian President and Presidential candidate Vladimir Putin attends a news conference at his campaign headquarters in Moscow, Russia March 18, 2018. Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC1E350BC880

The future of Putin’s illusion

Sergey Aleksashenko

Monday, March 19, 2018

Putin attends a meeting with members of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights in Moscow

Restoring equilibrium: U.S. policy options for countering and engaging Russia

Sergey Aleksashenko, Pavel K. Baev, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Steven Pifer, Alina Polyakova, Angela Stent, Strobe Talbott, Thomas Wright, Torrey Taussig, and Bruce Jones

February 2018

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives to take part in a wreath-laying ceremony marking the anniversary of the Nazi German invasion in 1941 in Moscow, Russia June 22, 2017. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin - RTS1868N

Trump-Putin: A chance for a win-win?

Sergey Aleksashenko

Thursday, July 6, 2017

Russia's President Vladimir Putin speaks by phone, February 28, 2017. Sputnik/Alexei Nikolsky/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. EDITORIAL USE ONLY. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - RTS10QE5

On Russia, Washington should wait

Sergey Aleksashenko

Tuesday, March 7, 2017