Russian billionaire Andre Melanchenko sketched five scenarios for Russia's future in an essay for the Economist, and the triumphant return to superpower status was not among them—the scenarios range from state collapse to absorption into China's orbit as a supplier of raw materials and strategic buffer.
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“He sketched five scenarios, most of them bleak. State collapsed, a besieged North Korea style fortress economy, a slide back to the periphery of the West as a poor relation or absorption into China's orbit as a supplier of raw materials and a strategic buffer.”
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