During the regime of Boris Yeltsin, a few Russian businessmen picked up formerly state-owned assets for a fraction of their real value. Mikhail Khodorkovsky got the Yukos Oil Company and parlayed it ...
Loren Goldner reviews John Marrot's "The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet History" in Insurgent Notes #7.
LONDON, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday it had opened a criminal case against exiled businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky and other prominent Kremlin critics, ...
President Trump recently suggested that Russia is a “paper tiger,” a term used by Mao Zedong with reference to the U.S. and the capitalist world. Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov immediately ...
I noticed this week that Marshall’s Adult Community Center sponsored a presentation about the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. It involved a tense two weeks when the world came close to nuclear war. The ...
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What Happened in Markets Today New sanctions on Russia drove up oil prices. Brent crude futures surged more than 5%, the biggest jump since June, after the Trump administration hit Russia’s two bigges ...
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