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MOSCOW BLOG: A new pan-European security deal would unblock Ukraine ceasefire talks
February 21, 2025
The White House has come back with a revised mineral deal for Ukraine that softened some of the harshest clauses, but while the details have not been released it appears that the crucial inclusion of a US security deal is still missing.
MOSCOW BLOG: International values-based order is dead
February 17, 2025
In his closing remarks at the end of this year’s Munich Security Conference (MSC), the outgoing chairman Christoph Heusgen broke down into tears. The event turned into an earthquake that has destroyed the trans-Atlantic partnership.
MOSCOW BLOG: Russia’s inflation is out of control and interest rates should be 7% lower
January 16, 2025
The 11.5% spread between Russia's inflation and policy rate is unheard of in the normally conservative world of central banking.
MOSCOW BLOG: Russia's looming credit crisis
January 14, 2025
The Davis Center, part of Havard University, that warns that in addition to pumping the economy full of money to fund the war, the Kremlin is forcing banks to make $250bn worth of off-budget soft loans to defence companies that could cause a crisis.
MOSCOW BLOG: Putin 25 years in office - has he been a boon or a bane for Russia?
January 2, 2025
Putin and the Russia story is complicated. As a journalist that mainly focuses on business, as early as the end of his first year I wrote there are two Putins: the political one and the economic one. And they are very different.
MOSCOW BLOG: EU under intense pressure to confiscate Russia’s frozen $300bn
December 18, 2024
The EU is under intense pressure to seize Russia’s frozen $300bn of reserves, as crises in funding the war in Ukraine and finding the funds to pay for reconstruction loom.
MOSCOW BLOG: Three of US’ key regional allies are in turmoil
December 4, 2024
Three of the US military outposts in key regions of the world are either under attack or in chaos. Israel in the Middle East, Ukraine in Europe and now South Korea in East Asia are all in turmoil thanks to the rise of geopolitical tensions.