For months, the story of the global fuel market has been the Strait of Hormuz. Now there’s a second front, and it’s coming from a completely...
Russia’s federal budget collected less revenue in 2025 than originally planned for the first time since the pandemic, a shortfall that has pushed the Kremlin to...
Russia‘s two largest, US-sanctioned oil producers have clawed back control of the majority of the country’s crude export trade, restoring their combined share to 57% in...
The War Economy Blows Its Own Budget Russia entered 2025 with a plan. The Kremlin’s finance ministry had set a ceiling of 13.5 trillion rubles —...
On May 20, 2026, Vladimir Putin walked into Beijing’s Great Hall of the People barely a week after Donald Trump had vacated the same ceremonial backdrop....
How a nation under siege is defying economic gravity—and what it means for the world watching Imagine that on a frost-bitten morning in Kharkiv, a logistics...