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Planned socialist alternatives to the market economy do not work
Sergei Guriev, who fled Russia in 2013, will take charge of multilateral investment bank next summer
From Padma Desai, Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems, Columbia University, New York, US
The FT’s deputy editor, in St Petersburg to attend the International Economic Forum, examines the city’s riches
Reform not political imperative will help boost Russia’s place in the global economy
Investors can find it hard to put money in and take it out
Putin’s legitimacy is undermined by crackdown on liberals
Sergei Guriev questioned by Russia’s investigative committee in April in relation to case against jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky
