Richard Connolly is Senior Lecturer in Political Economy and Co-Director of the Centre for Russian, Eurasian and European Studies, University of Birmingham. He is also Visiting Professor on the Master of Global Public Policy program at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. His research and teaching on the political economy of Russia focuses on industrial development and structural transformation, economic policy, trade and investment, and Russia’s role in the wider global economy. He is the author of Economic Structure and Social Order Development in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe (Routledge, 2012) and a number of journal articles. He is currently working on a book exploring the relationship between Russia’s role in the global economy and its system of domestic political economy.