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Anders Åslund (Swedish pronunciation: [andəʂ oːslʉnd]) (born 1952) is a Swedish economist with a particular interest in economic transition from centrally planned to market economies. Åslund served as an economic adviser to the governments of Kyrgyzstan Russia and Ukraine and from 2003 was director of the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Åslund was an advocate of early comprehensive and radical economic reforms in Russia and Eastern Europe.