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"If Russian Soldiers Aren't Dying In Ukraine, Why Did Putin Make Casualty Stats A State Secret?" by P.Gregory

“If Russian Soldiers Aren’t Dying In Ukraine, Why Did Putin Make Casualty Stats A State Secret?” by P.Gregory

3 Вересня, 2015

Paul Gregory, Member of KSE International Academic Board, Professor, University of Houston, USA gives his opinion about presence of Rusian soldiers in Ukraine “If Russian Soldiers Aren’t Dying In Ukraine, Why Did Putin Make Casualty Stats A State Secret?” for Forbes

 

 

“If you want to enrage Vladimir Putin, publish an article on Russian casualties in Ukraine. Putin unequivocally declared, on his Direct Line broadcast to the Russian people on April 16, that “the question of whether Russian troops are present in Ukraine…I can tell you outright and unequivocally that there are no Russian troops in Ukraine.” With such a categorical denial, any report on Russian military deaths in Ukraine would subject the writer to the Kremlin’s full wrath, including four to eight years in prison. Besides, no established Russian media outlet would cover the story”

 

Read the whole version of the article here

Paul Gregory, a Hoover Institution research fellow, holds an endowed professorship in the Department of Economics at the University of Houston, Texas, and is a research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin.

The holder of a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, he is the author or coauthor of twelve books and many articles on economic history, the Soviet economy, transition economies, comparative economics, and economic demography.

His publications based on work in the Hoover Archives have been awarded the Hewett Book Prize and the J.M. Montias Prize for the best article in the Journal of Comparative Economics.