Is the West in debt to the Rest?
Developed economies may be in trouble, but those in emerging markets shouldn’t write them off yet. Official reactions in Moscow and Beijing to the debt debacle in Washington provide the […]
Read MoreZyuganov’s Communists – Russia’s party of social democracy?
The KPRF is joining the campaigning for the State Duma elections with a lot of gloom and doom. Do they have anything better to offer? Russia’s lower house of parliament, […]
Read MoreСтрана вечных реформ
Государство по-прежнему хочет рулить всем Пока российские преобразования будут сводиться к напыщенной и пустой болтовне на международных форумах и клубных застольях, России остается только грезить о величии. Как писал Марк […]
Read MoreRussia’s Olympic Victory – sign of a world leader?
Moscow. (Ian Pryde for RIA Novosti) – Sochi’s successful bid to host the 2014 Winter Olympics was instantly celebrated not only as a great victory for Russian sport, but also […]
Read MoreFDI in Russia – rewards justify the risks
Depending on which set of statistics you believe, foreign direct investment in Russia in 2005 amounted to some $14.6 billion and in 2006 more than doubled to about $30 billion. […]
Read MoreRussia and the West – polar opposites or two sides of the same coin? Part III
MOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA Novosti) The Western and Russian media – not quite so different Western critiques of press freedom in Russia look somewhat ironic against the background of […]
Read MoreRussia and the West – polar opposites or two sides of the same coin? Part II
MOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA Novosti) Russia and Chechnya – and Stalin Chechnya is of course the black spot on Russia’s recent record. But it also shows the immense difficulty […]
Read MoreDoing Business in Yemen
Ian Pryde was the sole author of this 150-page guide Doing Business in Yemen.
Read MoreArguing for Realism: How a lack of historical perspective distorts views of Russia’s development
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, the pendulum of domestic and international opinion on Russia has swung violently between irrational exuberance and irrational pessimism. […]
Read MoreTonic for Fever
Despite the slew of headline-grabbing news in recent months about the arrests of several of Russia’s leading businessmen, the failure of the pro-business liberal parties Yabloko and the Union of […]
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