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Andrei Illarionov
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity
Andrei Illarionov is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. From 2000 to December 2005 he was the chief economic adviser of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Illarionov also served as the president's personal representative (sherpa) in the G-8. He is one of Russia's most forceful and articulate advocates of an open society and democratic capitalism, and has been a long-time friend of the Cato Institute. Illarionov received his Ph.D. from St. Petersburg University in 1987. From 1993 to 1994 Illarionov served as chief economic adviser to the prime minister of the Russian Federation, Viktor Chernomyrdin. He resigned in February 1994 to protest changes in the government's economic policy. In July 1994 Illarionov founded the Institute of Economic Analysis and became its director. Illarionov has coauthored several economic programs for Russian governments and has written three books and more than 300 articles on Russian economic and social policies.
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E-Mail: aIllarionov@cato.org
Books and Book Chapters
"The Russian Leadership's Preparation for War, 1999-2008," in Svante Cornell and S. Fredrick Starr, eds. The Guns of August 2008: Russia's War in Georgia (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2009).
"Russia's Potemkin Capitalism," in Ian Vasquez, ed., Global Fortune: The Stumble and Rise of World Capitalism (Cato Institute, 2000).
Articles and Newsletters
"The Siloviki in Charge," Journal of Democracy, vol. 20, no. 2, April 2009
"Friedman and Russia," Cato Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, Winter 2008
"Oil and Freedom in the New Russia," Cato Policy Report, vol. 29, no. 1, January/February 2007
Opinion and Commentary
"Europe Accepting Status Quo with Russia," Georgian Times, November 2, 2008
"Fighting Financial Fires With Blini," Moscow Times (Russia), October 3, 2008
"Preliminary Conclusions From The War In Georgia," Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, August 13, 2008
"Enabling The Kremlin," Washington Post, December 14, 2007
"In the End, Yeltsin Went the Way of Freedom," Moscow Times (Russia), April 28, 2007
Cato @ Liberty Blog Posts
"New Study: Hadley Center and CRU Apparently Cherry-picked Russia's Climate Data ," December 17, 2009
"A Few Notes on Climate Change," December 11, 2009
Events
"A Superpower in What? A Look Into the Nature of Russia's Social Order," March 17, 2010 [Policy Forum]
"Freedom and Prosperity in Central and Eastern Europe: 20 Years after the Collapse of Communism," September 21, 2009 [Conference]
"Georgia's Liberal Institutions In the Wake of War and the Global Economic Crisis," March 24, 2009 [Policy Forum]
"Georgia's Transformation into a Modern Market Democracy," May 13, 2008 [Policy Forum]
"Russian Energy Policy and the New Russian State," November 20, 2006 [Policy Forum]
Speeches and Testimony
"From Competition to Collaboration: Strengthening the U.S.-Russia Relationship," Testimony, February 25, 2009.
Multimedia
A Superpower in What? A Look Into the Nature of Russia's Social Order (March 17, 2010) [Events, 01:22:24]
Freedom and Prosperity in Central and Eastern Europe - The Evolution of Institutions and Ideology in the Post-Communist Era (September 21, 2009) [Events, 01:27:46]
Georgia's Liberal Institutions In the Wake of War and the Global Economic Crisis (March 24, 2009) [Events, 01:21:30]
Georgia's Transformation into a Modern Market Democracy with Ian Vásquez (May 13, 2008) [Events, 01:19:59]
Andrei Illarionov on BBC discussing what the west should do about Russia. (January 21, 2008) [Media Highlights - TV, 21:55]
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