Ever since sanctions were imposed on Russia following the annexation of Crimea and the start of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, it has been the Kremlin’s strategy to wait out the West, based on a divide-and-conquer approach to the countries of Europe. We now may be seeing that strategy start…
Muscovites are like deer in the headlights as the price of crude oil heads towards a bottom as low as $15 a barrel. The great hydrocarbon collapse is starting to hit the inhabitants of the capital of the Russian Federation hard. Moscow is no longer the adult, fairytale, playground for…