British Reporter — London Business School’s Professor Richard Portes recently appeared on Times Radio to discuss the news that S&P Global has placed Russia under a “selective default” rating after the Russian government said that it had repaid about $650m in dollar-denominated
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has made unequivocally clear that the battlefields of this crisis involve both a literal ground war and a highly destructive digital war. Social media platforms, news sites, and apps are embroiled in an ongoing information war, where harrowing
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British Reporter — Russian citizens are already feeling the punishing effects of economic sanctions imposed by Western powers over the invasion of Ukraine, and the financial situation for most people is likely to deteriorate.
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a CNN interview on Sunday that he was ready to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but if the talks failed, “that would mean that this is a third world war.”
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As Ukraine faces an uncertain future amid the ongoing invasion by Russia, historians around the world are looking to the past to better understand the motivations of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the future. Few are as well-placed to analyze how Putin’s interpretation
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President Vladimir Putin moved swiftly to limit and then outlaw any news outlet, social media platform, or critical voice in Russia that disputed the Kremlin’s narrative about the invasion of Ukraine.
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British Reporter — Ukraine has a cultural inheritance that has outlasted atrocities and Soviet oppression, writes Olenka Pevney. We must ensure it survives Russia’s brutal invasion.
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Expert expects dramatic ripple effects as sanctions, corporate measures take hold. The Russia-Ukraine conflict has led to an unprecedented experiment in unplugging one of the world’s biggest nations from the global economy, a development that will have broad consequences for the foreseeable future,
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British Reporter — ‘The war has set off a chain of events that could alter the balance of power for good,’ writes Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Director of the Oxford Centre for
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Analysts, scholars predict that fighting will grow more brutal, deadly before serious talks begin. Military and intelligence analysts and Ukraine scholars offered a somber assessment of the weeks ahead in Ukraine, saying that despite the resistance offered by Ukrainian fighters, the situation is
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