Sergey Aleksashenko

[4] Upon graduating from high school, he entered the MGIMO, but was expelled after his first year.

Two years later, the Komsomol sent Aleksashenko to study at the Moscow State University.

[2] As of August 2016, Aleksashenko is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.[2] In November 2023, the official Russian news agencies TASS and RIA reported that Russia's interior ministry had placed him on a wanted list with Sergei Guriev, another economist in exile, on unspecified charges.

[9] In May 2014, Aleksashenko publicly criticised the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation.

[7] In March 2020, he signed an appeal against the amendments to the Russian Constitution proposed by Vladimir Putin.