Hot Money and Dirty Laundry
How criminal theft of the nation's wealth has prevented Russia from entering the community of civilized nations.
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Another Casualty of Putin’s War on Ukraine: (opens the original)
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With thanks to Anne Halliwell, EditorThe young woman accompanying me to a Soviet bank meeting on a grey Moscow winter morning was wearing an Orthodox Christian cross necklace. Greek monks, according to legend, first brought Christianity to Russia’s early capital, Kyiv, around the year 1000. The cross, which has two more crossbars than the Roman Catholic cross, distinguishes the Church that dominates in Eastern Europe, Greece and some of the Balkan states. At that moment – 1987, early perestroika
Putin’s Statistical Blackout: (opens the original)
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Editor, Anne Halliwell In the late 1980’s, American political risk specialists gathered in New York to discuss the economics of perestroika, the reforms then underway in Moscow. Some worked for corporations and banks looking to do business in the Soviet Bloc countries; others worked at Washington think tanks. Still others were CIA staffers on the analytical side – my table at lunch was all CIA analysts, none of whom (for security reasons) had ever been In the Soviet Union.The GDP estimates were
Carrying Kandinsky to Russia: (opens the original)
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With thanks to Anne Halliwell, editorIt was the summer of 1963, and the “Information Center for Travelers to the Soviet Union” was giving out “gifts” as we boarded a World War II - era steamer in New York for the first US-Soviet student exchange program. Among the gifts for Soviet students were pocket sized booklets of works by Kandinsky and Malevich, pioneers in the Abstract Art movement in1920’s Russia.It was the height of the Cold War, and both countries were looking for any means to get info
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