Below is the beginning of a book review from American.com of the new work “Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Growth of Economics and Prosperity,” by the economists Carl Schramm, Robert Litan, and William Baumol. Good Cap, Bad Ca...
In our continuing coverage of the probe into the Austrian bank Raiffeisen’s alleged ties to money laundering and possible trail leading back to the assassination of Andrei Kozlov, below we are posting an exclusive English translation of the ...
Departing the land of democracy, arriving to Heiligendamm Some collected opinions on the G-8 Summit in Germany, which looks like it is going to descend into a veritable fiasco. WSJ: The G-8’s Cognitive Dissonance The original G-7 countries a...
From Stratfor: Head of Russia’s Panorama think tank, Vladmir Pribvlovsky, said June 1 that law enforcement officials searched his apartment and seized computers with the manuscripts of two books he was writing about Russian President Vladmir...
Zbigniew makes a good point: “I think there must have been peals of delirious laughter echoing around the ornate chambers of the Kremlin when the invitation to go to Kennebunkport arrived,” said Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was national se...
Here’s one of those stories you haven’t been reading about in the news – especially as there has been practically no English-language coverage. Over the past week, and especially this weekend, there have been numerous brawls (inv...
Last week I blogged about the news of an investigation by Austrian prosecutors into an alleged money laundering operation between the Vienna-based Raiffeisen Zentralbank (RZB) and Diskont Bank in Russia, an entity which had its license revoked by ...
Masha Lipman in today’s Washington Post on Russia’s new middle class and the reasons for their lack of interest in politics: As the Kremlin has steadily expanded and tightened control over the public realm — stripping other insti...
OK, so this is a dramatic escalation of rhetoric: Vladimir Putin has announced to a small group of journalists before the G-8 meetings this weekend that in retaliation for U.S. missile defense sites, Russia would aim its missiles at European citie...
Today a Bloomberg analyst published an extensive article on Gazprom, highlighting the company’s flat production, its inability to promote its own shareholders’ interests, dependence on Central Asian gas, and nearly everything else goin...
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