The international financial institutions which dictated what turned out to be disastrous policies for Russia were completely dominated by, and located in, the West. Western businessmen then came in a… (View Post)

Cyprus for sure has as big a problem economically as Boris does with his political donations nexus. There's a huge amount of Russian financial linkage and citizens living in Cyprus ; although ov… (View Post)

That doesn't make him wrong in this case, however. The real untold story here is the large number of names redacted from the Russia report, and the significant number of these linked to organisa… (View Post)

But it doesn't help at all that Britain is out of the EU, and communication and co-ordination with a reasonable-size power is thus weakened . Just as Putin would have wanted, and indeed was very… (View Post)

The safety of Putin's position , and his eye on his legacy ? I think it could be. (View Post)