I noted in my last blog that Russia had imprisoned hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs and that it finally needed to start trusting its own people...

On June 18, 2013, President Putin warned that government revenues would be less than previously expected and that the budget policy for 2014-2016 had...

On March 15, 2013, the Financial Times published an article on "Moscow's new art centers — A tour of the hotspots of a creative renaissance...

In his writeup of this year's gathering of politicians and businessmen in Davos ("Complacency in a Leaderless, Multipolar World," The Moscow Times...

In the third quarter of 2012, the economy chalked up its 55th straight quarter of growth and surprised analysts on the upside by growing 7.1 percent...

It is easy for such prestige projects to backfire. Look at Beijing in 2008 and India in 2010.

Russia urgently needs a healthy dose of uskoreniye. or acceleration. Past reforms were efforts to catch up with the West, but now other developing countries...

Eminent Western speakers put forward seemingly logical ideas on modernization and what Russia needs to do to modernize at the Global Policy Forum. But...

Russia's main reason for refusing to grant a unilateral visa-free regime is not economic but ideological and is tied to the Kremlin's outdated perception...