University of Glasgow provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The US vice-president, J.D. Vance, recently told Fox News that “the very best security guarantee” to prevent Russia ...

Transparency International, whose corruption perception ratings are closely watched around the world, said Ukraine had improved markedly in recent years due to "reforms aimed at European ...

Last year, Europe spent more on Russian oil and gas than it did on aid to Ukraine, according to recent financial data — a striking irony. Trump must demand real economic consequences for ...

Neither Putin nor his military or economic planners anticipated a grinding ... tomatoes by 39.5 per cent and potatoes by 25 per cent. The Russian ruble has lost over half of its value since ...

Privately, one Russian official told me the US-Russian economic cooperation deals being discussed behind closed doors may have appealed. Such deals are Putin’s “Kryptonite” for a ...

Against the odds, the Russian economy has weathered the war. The next economic storm on the horizon: peace. Throughout the conflict in Ukraine, massive government spending on the military has ...

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