Is it Putin or is it oil? Explaining Russia's fiscal recovery

Post-Soviet Affairs

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 301-323

  Appel, Hilary ^a  

^a CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY MARKET; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; POLITICAL POWER; POLITICAL SYSTEM; STATE ROLE; TAX SYSTEM;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 65549125839     PISSN: 1060586X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1060-586X.24.4.301     Document Type: Article

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