Economy

In 1999 nina tannenwald, a political scientist at Brown University, wrote a paper analysing something she had observed among generals,...

ON MARCH 22ND, in a penal colony 1,000km north-east of the front lines around Kyiv, Alexei Navalny, the jailed leader...

HE NEVER WANTED a war and he did not prepare his country for one. He may quote Winston Churchill, but...

WHEN RUSSIAN and Ukrainian negotiators met in Istanbul to discuss a potential settlement on March 29th Alexander Fomin, Russia’s deputy...

ON APRIL 6TH 2016 a 38-year-old former investment banker who, two years before, had been appointed as a minister in...

ALL MAIN roads in Kyiv lead to Maidan, the open space at the heart of the city—even if, at the...

WHEN THE devastating war ended, the country resembled a wasteland. Its industrial infrastructure had been flattened by air raids and...

ON A FRIDAY night in Taipei, dozens of people gather in a bookstore to learn what to do if war...

THE JOB of organising NATO’s biggest military exercise since the cold war kept Admiral James Foggo, then the commander of...

BIG NEWS from America’s Supreme Court usually arrives in late June, when the most contentious rulings of the year are...

THE TRIALS and transformation of India’s economy have an epic quality, reminiscent of 19th-century America. A vast national market is...

In a message to Chinese aerospace engineers and researchers for “Youth Day” earlier this month, President Xi Jinping shared his...

In 2001 olena nazarenko’s father started farming in Lukashivka, a small village about 100km north of Kyiv, with three cows...