Commentary / World Dec 5, 2021

Putin needs a real casus belli to invade Ukraine

It would be reasonable to assume that Putin is weighing some kind of sudden onslaught scenario in case his "red line” in relation to Ukraine is crossed.

Commentary / World Oct 17, 2021

Why Putin’s money eludes offshore investigators

Only three Russians made the ICIJ’s list of 50 "power players,” deemed by the investigators to be the Pandora Papers’ most prominent persons in the eyes of the international audience.

Commentary / World Mar 21, 2021

We’re being watched. So are our watchers.

In modern society, the legal concept of a reasonable expectation of privacy is increasingly meaningless.

Commentary / World Mar 11, 2021

Russia has been the Sputnik vaccine’s worst enemy

Now that a peer-reviewed article in The Lancet has established Sputnik as safe and effective, the initial failure of many countries to believe in it looks like a missed opportunity.

Commentary / World Jan 25, 2021

Navalny vs. Putin is an epic and existential battle

Russians appreciate and respect power plays. Both Navalny and Putin know it. And for both, a lot is at stake.

Commentary / World Jan 18, 2021

Tech censorship is the real gift to Putin

Authoritarians these days have to pay lip service to freedom of speech; what the social media platforms have done takes that concern out of the equation.

Commentary / World Jan 28, 2020

Age discrimination is bad for business

Not acting forcefully on ageism will increasingly carry a heavy cost for politicians.

Commentary / World Jan 19, 2020

Putin's new plan to hold power forever

The Russian leader has come up with a constitutional reform that gives him three paths to indefinite rule.

Commentary / World Jan 14, 2020

Iran admits to plane shootdown, but Russia still won't

Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Russia's overseas propaganda channel, RT, had a telling reaction to Iran's admission that its Revolutionary Guards Corps had accidentally shot down a Ukrainian civilian airliner last week. "There are two schools of thought on how a big country that demands respect ...