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Nataliia Shapoval

Nataliia Shapoval is the director of the KSE Institute, part of the Kyiv School of Economics. She has 8 years of experience in managing and conducting policy and economic research in public procurement, private sector strategic development, economic strategies for governments, regional policies, and international trade.

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Opinion: IMF's trip to Moscow is effectively enabling Russia's war against Ukraine

You probably haven't heard that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is preparing to send a mission to Russia. That’s because top IMF officials have been trying to draw as little public attention to their plans as possible – which ought to tell you something. Fund officials themselves know that this is a scandal in the making. The IMF is about to send its first official mission to Russia since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The visit later this month, which