No one does privatization like the Russians. The highway robbery that was the post-Soviet privatization years is good and gone. The new wave is mainly selling shares in state controlled enterprises.

Not too long ago, President Donald Trump signed sweeping Russian sanctions legislation that included a Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline called Nord Stream II. If you build it, a Russophobic congress ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Phil Rosenthal, the creator of “Everybody Loves Raymond,” was delighted ...

President Vladimir Putin and his propagandists have tried to portray the aggression in Ukraine as a people’s war since the beginning. It didn’t work. The country has grown tired, even as so-called ...

Comically creative orders are a military instructor’s best friend. Ask any recruit for an inventory of comically embarrassing stories of being on the receiving end of such commands and the list will ...

Aleksandra Skochilenko, a 33-year-old Russian artist on trial for using price tags in a city store to distribute information about Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, has called the case against ...

It is a notorious Russian comedy that has been playing now for decades. A career government official and his wife and other relatives are found to possess assets worth far more than what his state ...

Some days, Mike Best feels like a spy. “You have to figure out who the bad guy is,” he says. “But the whole time, the bad guy is feeding you misinformation.” Like Bond in the last 50 years, or MI6 in ...

Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne. Another remnant of the Soviet empire, another country that thinks Borat is not terribly funny. Russia's culture agency refused to license the new Borat movie about a ...

Vladimir Putin's 2014 Olympics in Russia were a farce. Political activists and gay and lesbian athletes were openly repressed during the Winter Games in Sochi. The event's massively inflated budget ...