Because of my work, I am obliged to read closely, watch attentively and listen carefully whenever Russian politicians and ...

Speaking at Davos, Radoslaw Sikorski said Putin was overspending on the military and bankrupting Russia. "He was very insistent that this mistake should not be repeated. And he's doing exactly that," ...

In Russia, the tradition of making fun of Soviet economic planning is almost as old as attempts to improve the economic system. “What would happen if socialism were built in the Sahara?” an old joke ...

Next December will mark the 30th anniversary of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. On December 25, in a nationally televised speech USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned and declared his office ...

This article investigates the effect of prospective secessions on economic integration and growth by examining the break-up of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Firstly, I show ...

With economic sanctions unfolding against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, it’s useful to recall one of the climactic moments near the end of the Cold War — the dramatic weekend summit between ...

FILE - Former Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov attends a session of the Federation Council, Russian parliament's upper house, in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, June 25, 2014. Ryzhkov, former Soviet ...

WESTERN observers have been startled by the size and character of Soviet purchases and sales in many parts of the world during the past twelve months. The Russians have sold manganese to England, oil ...

President Joe Biden’s choice for comptroller of the currency, Saule Omarova, wants to transform America’s free market economy into a Soviet-style system – the same kind of central planning that ...

Most articles on the death of Mikhail Gorbachev dwell on the political failure of his reform project. The Russian Federation, the main successor state to the Soviet Union, has not, to say the least, ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is copying Soviet-era approaches that bankrupted the USSR and that he used to criticize, according to Poland's foreign minister. Speaking on a panel at the World ...