During her speech at the Gaidar Forum, the head of the Account Chambers of Russia, Tatyana Golikova, bemoaned that the effectiveness of public investment in Russia has dramatically decreased. “It seems that during the crisis periods 2014, 2015, 2016 the state would allocate funds for investment, but what is…
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, while delivering a lecture in Moscow, said the Kremlin wants to avoid an arms race and will shift its focus to conventional, precision guided, munitions. The reference to an arms race seems to be referring to President-elect Donald Trump’s earlier comments that the U.S. would…