Italy’s deal with China: Much ado about nothing much
Xi-Jinping, General Secretary of China’s Communist Party since 2012 and President of China since 2013, made a state visit to Italy 21-24 March, accompanied...
A new stage in Russian-Israeli relations?
The March meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin was praised by experts as something of a turning point...
Brexit: Are the British elite up to the task?
With Brexit postponed until 12 April at the earliest, we will have to wait longer still for the fallout from this historic exit from...
Kazakhstan: The transition has finally begun
The ‘Kazakhstan transition’ has been expected for years. Although it was widely predicted, no one – inside or outside of Kazakhstan – could guess...
Infrastructure investment and growth: market failures can be corrected by the government
There are many studies praising investments into infrastructure and proving that they are good for economic growth. The estimates of the multiplier – by...
Ignorance-inspired Brexit imperial nostalgia
As the possible implications of Britain's self-imposed ‘no-deal' exit from the European Union loom larger, a new round of imperial nostalgia has come alive.
After...
Afghanistan: Easy to enter; hard to leave
Through roundtable discussions, interviews, and other publications, the thirty-year anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan has recently being commemorated in Russia....
A feminine future? Mass transformation for the bottom billion
The world is certainly not a poor place, but the distribution of global wealth is extremely uneven.
In 2018, Forbes reports, there were 2,208 billionaires...
Platform labour conditions: Yandex innovation prompts concerns
The competition in Russia’s online taxi-hailing business has become cutthroat and the leading companies are looking for ways to distinguish themselves. For years, driving...
Suspending US-South Korean large-scale military exercises unlikely to change North Korea’s nuclear course
The article argues that Washington’s suspension of large-scale joint military exercises with South Korea, planned for March, will not reverse North Korea’s nuclear ambitions....