The news from Moscow is that Russia is likely to abandon the 13 percent flat-rate income tax enacted in 2000, not long after a group of visiting conservative/libertarian American economists, including me, advised newly installed President Vladimir Putin to dramatically…
Translator’s Note: France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, will not say there will never be French troops — or NATO troops — on the ground in Ukraine. This is common sense, and, to take a line from commentators in the U.S. who…
It is the morning of May 12, 1892, and the Lithuanian-born landscape painter Isaac Ilyich Levitan has just left his home and studio on Moscow’s leafy Bolshoy Trekhsvyatitelsky Lane to spend the summer sketching and painting amid the endless expanse…
India’s ontological question is: Who are we — a regional or global power? Narendra Modi, the most popular and consequential leader of India since Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister after independence in 1947, can help answer this question. Modi’s…
“Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.” So declared Joseph Stalin, the murderous tyrant whose own death arrived on March 5, 1953, five months after the birth of Vladimir Putin. Stalin’s death solved a great problem for his vast…
Tucker Carlson’s curious interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the convenient — and likely orchestrated — death of Alexei Navalny have left no doubt in anyone’s mind that Putin is a tyrant. But could the same be said of…
I’ll say this upfront: I think it’s most likely that Vladimir Putin, or elements of his regime, had Russian dissident Alexei Navalny killed. Putin is certainly capable of bumping off the political opposition — and with Navalny directly under Putin’s…
In a breaking story that will have serious international implications, we’re just learning from the Russians that dissident and opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in Vladimir Putin’s gulag. Specifically, the 47-year-old Navalny perished in a brutal Arctic concentration camp…
