Anders Åslund
Economist & author. Russia, Ukraine & Eastern Europe. Read my latest book: "Russia's Crony Capitalism" https://t.co/ZqmWMRSMf9
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Suddenly, the US stock market has soured on the Trump presidency. The most obvious explanation is that Fed is not likely to cut the interest rate as much as anticipated, since infl...
I am sad to see that Jeffrey Sachs, my old friend & partner in advising the Russian reform government, 1991-94, now has gone all out in attacking democratic Ukraine & the West in f...
Belatedly a few quotes from @Leonid_Gozman's contemplations: "Many Russians have returned to the Soviet way of thinking: the system will last forever." I moved to Moscow in 1984. A...
Today, @washingtonpost has published an article by Robert Wright, "Biden can help Zelensky, and Ukraine, by pushing for peace," which illustratively gets everything wrong. Let me p...
Happy to read that Germany & Italy have both nationalized Russian-owned oil refineries. We need to reconsider Russian entities after Russia has become a terrorist state, as the Eur...
The original cause of Russia's assault on Ukraine was that Ukraine allowed the Sevastopol naval base to be leased to Russia in 1997. This was an aberration from the general rule of...
Germany & France must take their responsibility for enabling Russia's military aggression: 1. If they had not opposed Ukraine's and Georgia's accession to NATO in April 2008, neith...
Since October 10 Russia has repeatedly terror bombed Ukraine's civilian infrastructure - mainly electricity & hospitals. What has the West done? Delivered some air defense, generat...
Quite incredible. Unofficial Chinese police stations have been detected in the Netherlands, Hungary and now also in the US. What is this? Has elementary counterespionage collapsed...
This is as illuminating as infuriating: "The EU has frozen a total of €68 billion in Russian assets — most of which are in Belgium, according to an internal Commission document see...
BBC: "MH17: Three guilty as court finds Russia-controlled group downed airliner" "Igor Girkin, the military leader of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic, was convicted of depl...
What do we know about the alleged Russian rocket attack in Poland? 1. 2 innocent civilians were killed by rockets in the Polish village Przewodow 6 miles from the Ukrainian border....