The Globalist

Has Putin’s Russia of 2020 been foreshadowed by Russian novels, in a mixture of wicked satire and genuine tragedy?

Polarized and despondent, the Czech Republic is not a happy place. Despite rising living standards, Czechs are stuck in a national malaise.

PiS aims to create a repressive, homogeneous society not much different from the late unlamented Polish People’s Republic — albeit in the name of Jesus Christ, not Karl Marx.

How the market economy changed lives: East Europeans assess 30 years of freedom.

The fall of the Berlin Wall signaled a rebirth of freedom, liberating millions who had been trapped for two generations on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain.

How the market economy changed lives: East Europeans assess 30 years of freedom.

How the market economy changed lives: East Europeans assess 30 years of freedom.

Making personal loyalty the measure of all government, as Donald Trump does, was tried in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin.

Putin rules like a Czar, deeply conservative, fearful of unrest, placing stability above all else.

What happened when China was eclipsed by the rise of neighboring Japan?