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标题：Economic Challenges: Weak Ruble, Unstructured Monotowns
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作者：Stephen Crowley ; Philip Hanson
期刊名称：Russian Analytical Digest
印刷版ISSN：1863-0421
出版年度：2015
期号：164
出版社：Research Centre for East European Studies and the Center for Security Studies
摘要：This edition examines some of the economic challenges currently facing Russia. Firstly, Philip Hanson assesses the ruble’s dramatic fall vis-à-vis other currencies, arguing that among the many causes, the causal chain "oil price—exchange rate—inflation" stands out. Secondly, Stephen Crowley considers how the regime’s concern that monotowns – one-industry towns leftover from the Soviet era – represent potential sources of social unrest will likely lead them to continue subsidizing monotowns to avoid social conflict, which will preserve the country’s inefficient post-Soviet industrial landscape.