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Published in: openEconomyWho needs a bank?
Should we make banks better, or just make them redundant? Peer-to-peer currency schemes like bitcoin.org offer the...
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Published in: oDRWTO membership: confused by the double-headed eagle
Russia has taken seventeen years of WTO negotiations to get to a stage that most candidate countries reach after...
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Published in: oDRUkraine: pain, but no grain
Ukraine is known as the breadbasket of Europe, but something very strange is going on in the grain market, writes...
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Published in: openEconomyThe EU forgets Chernobyl as it encourages Ukraine to become major nuclear-generated electricity exporter
Ukraine has an energy strategy that sees significant new nuclear build. The European Investment Bank's...
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Published in: openEconomyThe Bank vs the banks?
The Governor of the Bank of England is making increasingly controversial and political statements about the way...
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Published in: oDRRussian modernisation: between chance and necessity
Modernisation is a task, not a problem. Russians must first want a modern country if it is to ever emerge. Alexander...
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Published in: oDRBP, Rosneft and Russia's open secrets
Business is rarely just business in Russia, and the recent deal between Rosneft and BP is surely a case in point,...
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Published in: oDRSwitch on, switch off: how law sustains the Russian system
In some card games, the aim is to collect as many cards as possible; in others it is to get rid of cards that have...
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Published in: oDRFridman: How I became an oligarch
What do you need to succeed in business?A mixture of luck and good judgement, according to Mikhail Fridman, one of...
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Published in: HomeAfghanistan's roads to stability
Afghanistan was not always the abyss it’s thought to be today. If it is to be stabilised, it needs to resume its...
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Published in: oDRYaroslau Romanchuk: my vision of a post-Lukashenka Belarus
Next year's presidential elections offer a real opportunity of disposing a tired, weakened and unpopular Lukashenka,...
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Published in: openEconomyHow billionaires can help the world
The Giving Pledge promoted by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett is a huge commitment of funds by the super-rich to...
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Published in: oDR"Be innovative!", orders the Kremlin
The Russian attempt to build Silicon Valley in Skolkovo is a case of throwing good money after bad, argues Andrei...
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Published in: oDRBelarusian "godfather" falls out with his masters
On the eve of a Customs Union agreement between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, Russian state television began an...
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Published in: openEconomyThe Gross Domestic Problem
Measuring activity better than GDP does is good but is no panacea
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Published in: oDRKickstarting the Kyrgyz economy
On 8 April 2010 Kyrgyzstan experienced its second revolution in five years. The corrupt regime of President Bakiev...
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Published in: oDRRemembering Gaidar, man of many talents
Unfairly savaged by Russian populists, Russia’s radical reformer was a brilliant technocrat, a rigorous academic,...
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Published in: openEconomyRecovery requires redistribution
As governments everywhere struggle with cutting deficits without hammering the recovery from the financial crisis, a...
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Published in: HomeNetanyahu and the sanctioning of Iran
Israel’s attempt to rally support for energy sanctions against Iran look like failing, for good reason. They would...
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Published in: openEconomyPhilanthrocapitalism: the defense
Today's big philanthropists understand the power of politics, and Michael Edwards should give them more credit