Russia Profile Weekly Experts Panel: Time for a New Global Leader?
In a twist of fate, Russia is now emerging as a country that is ready and willing to resume the responsibilities of global leadership. In recent weeks, the Russian leadership has increasingly come to recognize its dependence on the world economy. The global financial crisis has had an impact on the Russian economy, with the Russian stock market losing more than 60 percent of its value since last May. Is President Dmitry Medvedev showing global statesmanship? Is Russia trying to position itself as a responsible global player that has the ideas and the will to lead?
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The EU Russia Centre is conducting a survey to establish what opinion formers in the EU think about the new President and the measures he should undertake to initiate reform in Russia. The arrival of a new leader in the Kremlin is an opportunity for EU opinion formers who are knowledgeable about affairs in Russia to remind him of these issues, and highlight particular activities that might be undertaken by President Medvedev to reverse the current situation.
The survey is available at http://medvedev.questionpro.com/