It is regrettable that the government is not using the economic crisis as an opportunity to carry out structural reforms in the economy and that it is not treating bad debts in the banking system as a priority, prominent economist Sergey Guriyev said on Yevgeniy Kiselev's regular "Vlast" slot on the editorially-independent Russian radio station, Ekho Moskvy, on 10 April. Another studio guest on the programme, political analyst Dmitriy Oreshkin, said that Russia was losing its standing in the CIS and that Chechnya was outside Russia's constitutional and legal fields.
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