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Russia Attempts to Institutionalize Government Transparency
By Ben Aris
Russia's anti-corruption drive may not be going very fast, nor is it producing much in the way of results, but the Kremlin's efforts are slowly being institutionalized.
BRICs Halfway There
By Ben Aris
Ten years ago, Goldman Sachs' Jim O'Neill coined the term BRIC and predicted Brazil, Russia, India and China would become the world's largest economies by 2024. We are halfway through that process. So, how are they doing?
Russia Overtakes Turkey in Loan Growth
By Ezekiel Pfeifer
Russia has overtaken Turkey, the darling of investors for most of last year, to become the fastest-growing credit market in Central and Eastern Europe.
Who Wants to Be Middle-Class?
By Ben Aris
The demonstrations in December were middle-class phenomena, but estimates vary as to just how big Russia's middle class is.
Russia Rising, America Falling Into Despair
By Ben Aris
A catastrophe is unfolding in Western Europe that threatens to wreak havoc on emerging Europe, but there doesn't seem to be any sense of urgency among the politicians of the world's leading economies. What no one in the West seems to grasp is that things have gone so far already that the developed economies of Western Europe have already overtaken the East in terms of the despair among their people.
- The Coming Flood of Capital
- Russia's Middle Class Walloped by Crisis
- Government Paints a Brighter Picture at VTB Event
- CRISIS WATCH: We Are Getting Closer
- Crisis Looms, but Russia Well Prepared
- Ukraine's Monopoly on European Gas Exports Broken
- Mortgages to Soar to 741,000 Contracts by 2015
- Blurry Lines
- The Time to Loosen the Reigns is Now
- Russia Leads CEE in FDI
- Here We Go!
- Medvedev's Keynote Speech: A Blueprint for Change
- Russia in Motion vs. the Rest of Emerging Europe
- Russia's Crash and Recovery in Motion
- Confidence Returning, Growth Accelerating
- Election Season Begins
- Putin for President?
- Yandex Warns of Risk Ahead of IPO
- It's All Over, Bar the Bill
- BRICS and Mortars
- South Africa Livens Up the BRIC Party
- Extraordinary Recession, Ordinary Recovery
- Geography and Permission
- The GEM Consensus
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Author's Bio
Ben is the editor/publisher of bne and an Eastern Europe specialist. He has worked as Moscow bureau chief for the Daily Telegraph, contributing editor at The Banker and Euromoney, acting Berlin bureau chief for the Guardian, and Russia correspondent for fashion magazine Face and other lighter publications. |
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