# In an op-ed, Prof. Nouriel Roubini discusses Russia's place in the global economy

1 Faculty News May 29, 2012 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025700.jpg?itok=LSPbU2V1)>

Excerpt from [Financial Times](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/b9cb5870-a975-11e1-9772-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1wMKbFKAt) -- "Russian membership in western organisations is not exactly yielding positive results. The G7+1 cannot become a G8 until Russia begins to act like a mature free-market democracy."

[Read more](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/b9cb5870-a975-11e1-9772-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1wMKbFKAt)

Additional coverage appeared in [Financial Times blog](http://blogs.ft.com/the-world/2012/05/in-the-picture-syria-and-the-question-of-intervention/#axzz1wMlJvzQg), [Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2012/05/30/a-response-to-ian-bremmer-and-nouriel-roubini-why-we-shouldnt-blackball-russia/) and [CNBC](http://www.cnbc.com/id/47610459).