Alexander Libman, professor of russian and east european politics and incoming Principal Investigator at SCRIPTS, was interviewed by Bert Losse from the German magazine WirtschaftsWoche about the problems economists currently face in Russia. Similar to the situation of the free press, economists are not able to express their views on the current economic and political situation freely. Instead, economists who are loyal to Putin are dominating the discourse. Read the German article here (Paywall)