Why petrostates are in peril and frackers are on firmer ground—in one simple chart.

A strong message was sent to Xi and Putin—in that order.

With Alexei Navalny behind bars, government threats issued, and the internet lightly censored, very few people turned out to the Russian streets this past weekend.

With Brexit invoked, central bankers see sterling as a better long-term bet.

The story is more about a power struggle than about people power.

But this weekend’s protests, impressive as they were, are a long way from constituting a lasting threat to Putin’s power.

All corruption revelations are due to tactical leaking in Russia. So who’s out to get Dmitry Medvedev?

Cultivating corrupt political proxies in order to sow chaos in the West is a game as old as the Comintern itself. But a set of technological, social, political, and above all financial innovations have made the old playbook much more effective.

The Russo-Turkish relationship is shallower, and more brittle, than it seems.

An offhand remark by Vladimir Putin has Russians reading the tea leaves on the Prime Minister’s future.