title: Alternative Financial Infrastructures in Russia
abstract: Russia’s policies responding to the pressure of sanctions on financial infrastructures provide a prime example for the development for the creation of alternatives to the Western dominated financial systems. From a perspective of infrastructural power, the paper discusses the issue in relation to an expansion of the state’s economic role. Focussing mainly on the payment card system “Mir” and the digital rubel, it traces the development of cashless payment in post-soviet Russia from an early phas