Economy and Politics in the Period of Putin’s Russia
Ass. Prof. Dr. Elnur Hasan Mikail, Ass. Prof. Dr. Savaş Durmuş, Expert Andaç Karabulut

Abstract
Russia has always been the name of a big country for Turks. We sometimes called it the Russian Empire, which suits both the economic and the political definition of the term empire, and sometimes the Soviet Union, which was one of the biggest and the bloodiest empire that history has witnessed, and now we call it the Russian Federation, which makes the term empire take a modern shape and get out of the classic definition. The President Putin calls Russia an empire. These three ‘Russia’s should be discussed in order to understand the Russia of today.

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