What Is So Special About Russian–Turkish Economic Relations

Russian Analytical Digest (RAD), No.125, 25 March 2013, pages 5-10
Russia’s Relations with Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania

By Natalia Ulchenko *, Moscow

This article analyses contemporary Russian–Turkish economic relations. It considers the problems that the two sides are faced with, in spite of their steadily increasing bilateral trade volume and investment flows, and highlights the rather different positions that they take towards addressing these problems and suggests how they might successfully manage these difference.

* Natalia Ulchenko, kandidat ekonomicheskikh nauk, is Head of the Turkish Sub-Department Sector at the Department of Countries of the Near and Middle East at the Oriental Insitute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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