No one likes a good dinner better than Joseph Edward Davies, onetime (1936-38) U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Russia. While in Moscow he loved to serve his Communist friends whacking feeds “with all the ...

Back in March, in the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I wrote an essay that attempted to answer the question, “Why is Russia so poor?” as a way of highlighting some of the factors that ...

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 ...

Sylvia Pankhurst discusses how the implementation of the New Economic Policy had merely intensified, rather than abolished, capitalism in early 1920s Russia. The appeal which we publish on our front ...

THE EMERGING stalemate in the Russia-Ukraine war poses huge challenges for Russia even as it offers opportunities to Ukraine. It gives the latter country time to revitalise its army, which could ...

After three years of war, the Putin regime is increasingly unable to control its explosive social consequences, which have exacerbated the internal contradictions of Russian capitalism. In an effort ...

Where is the United Nations? The international behemoth's charter mandates that it "maintain international peace and security." Despite sucking up billions of American taxpayer dollars every year, it ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. MOSCOW • Lenin and the czar were ready. There were no cops in sight, and the sunny weather had brought out a swarm of tourists on ...

McDonald’s is selling off its 850 restaurants in Russia. This “de-arching” turns the clock back to January 31, 1990, when Big Macs first landed at Moscow and started showing the communist nation the ...

Using Russia as a case study, help students examine the real-world struggles of converting from a command economy to a market economy. Begin by defining the terms "command economy" and "market economy ...

The New York Times recently ran a story about Russia’s powerful internet regulator, Roskmnadzor, whose collection of personal data about average Russians has, in the Times’ words, “catapulted Russia, ...

Of the dozens of vodka factories strung across Russia’s 11 time zones, the crown jewel of the Russian liquor industry is the Kristall distillery in downtown Moscow, birthplace of the world-famous ...