Despite all the doom and gloom surrounding Russia's economic prospects, the country will probably weather the financial hurricane relatively well,...

Russian assets are falling. Since the beginning of the year, the ruble has dropped 10 percent against the dollar, and the MICEX has dropped 11 percent...

January has been a trying month for investors across the world, but it is the emerging markets that have captured the most attention, with some dramatic...

Although his release was positive news, it does not reverse the destructive path that it symbolized.

Emerging markets have experienced a difficult year. While the U.S. equity market is up by more than 20 percent, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index is...

What is curious about Russians' short-term investment strategy is how well it maps the behavior of risky asset classes.

Declining investment levels suggest that political risks have begun to hamper fundamentals, but September's mayoral election and a shift on Syria raise...

The Russian government is good at talking the talk about modernizing its capitalist state, but it needs to start walking the walk.

The timing of the latest bout of tension in the TNK-BP partnership is surely no accident. It comes immediately after the switch of Russia's ruling...

Seven years after it began, the Yukos affair remains one of the most contentious and divisive aspects of the Russian investment climate. Pro- and anti-Kremlin...