This is the perspective from my Russian friend, Konstantin, with whom I have had many a foreign policy discussion in the bars of Moscow. He is an educated,...
Jules Evans
Jules Evans is a freelance journalist and writer, who covers two main areas: philosophy and psychology (for publications including The Times, Psychologies, New Statesman and his website, Philosophy for Life), and emerging markets (for publications including The Spectator, Economist, Times, Euromoney and Financial News).
Who’s in charge?
One of the interesting questions in the Georgia - Ossetia - Russia conflict is who is calling the shots. On the Ossetian and Russian side, is Dmitry Medvedev,...
The Russian tanks are rolling again
Pretty amazing pictures from Georgia, where the Russian tanks are on the roll again, prompting dark memories of Afghanistan, Prague, Berlin... This all for a...
Miliband’s folly
While I'm amused by Harriet Harman's apparent interest in the top job, I'm amazed by David Miliband's. I thought he was smart. It seems to me he can't help...
Harman for PM!
These are testing times, my friends. Testing, troubling, traumatic times. We need a steady hand on the tiller, a good head on the shoulders, a top steerer in...
Happy Birthday, natural selection
Yesterday, 150 years ago, two papers were read out at the Linnean Society in London, one by Alfred Russell Wallace and the other by Charles Darwin, which...
BP in trouble in Russia
There's a great story in the FT today by Catherine Belton, who I've always rated as the best foreign journalist in Russia. She's something of a workaholic,...
Virtual Iraq
There's a great article in this week's New Yorker about a new form of therapy designed to treat the estimated 20% of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who are...
Medvedev builds his authority
President Putin built up his authority by promoting mates of his from KGB to senior posts in the government and economy. Now president Medvedev is doing the...
The globalization of media
One of the trends we've seen in investment banking over the last two or three years is what PWC calls the 'global war for talent'. Local banks in rich...
Ukraine, land of black soil
I'm in Ukraine, land of black soil. Ukraine is already an important player in the global food crisis - it's a big exporter of wheat, and one of the reasons...
Beware new markets
We're now in the point-the-finger phase of the present financial crisis. The G7 says its all the banks' faults, and wants to increase their capital adequacy...
Islam’s commercial revolution?
I've started writing about Islamic finance as of a few months ago. It's a fascinating, bizarre market, fusing as it does the world of ancient religious law...
A new direction for Russia?
I recently interviewed Sergei Markov, who is a key spin-doctor to the Kremlin. He told me that the West had completely underestimated the extent to which...
Transhumans: better, stronger, faster…
I posted a few weeks ago suggesting that one of the big -isms of this century would be transhumanism, or the idea that humans can 'evolve' to higher beings...
Sovereign Wealth Funds’ embarrassment of riches
Record commodities prices have given countries like China, Singapore, Russia, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi and UAE control over trillions of dollars, which they have...
The FSB versus the Russian-Oxford alumni association
I was astounded to read today of the FSB's arrest of Ilya Zaslavsky, who's a manager at TNK-BP in Moscow, and also the organizer of the Russian branch of the...
A Tsar is born?
The foreign banks active in Russia tend to have a far more informed and less cliched view of Russian politics than foreign policy analysts in Washington or...
The end of unfettered capitalism (or is it?)
Back in September 2002, I wrote a cover story for Euromoney called 'The End of Unfettered Capitalism'. I interviewed various wise sages of finance (Joseph...
Spinning Lukashenko
Lord Bell, PR guru and Tory peer, has plied his dark arts for some fairly controversial characters in the past - Augusto Pinochet, Boris Berezovsky, Michael...
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