I would like to take advantage of the SPIEF venue to tell you not only about the goals and tasks that we in Russia have set for ourselves but also about our views on the state of the global economic system. For us this is not an abstract conversation, nor an academic discussion. Russia’s development, simply by virtue of its size, history, culture, the human potential and economic opportu...
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After Sudanese long-time despot, Omar Bashir was overthrown, his army decided to take over. One cannot accuse Bashir of anything he committed while in power without touching the army that ke...
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If the United States President, Donald Trump’s sentiments and utterances are anything to go by, one will have to conclude that all of his predecessors in office have been fools for allowing...
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One of my first lectures in graduate school was on how ‘enlightenment era’ Europe imagined and mapped Africa. And some of the first maps were silent about the interior save for pyramids to...
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More than ten years have passed since the global financial crisis. We have seen a spate of regulatory reforms over the last decade – unprecedented in scope and scale but necessary. Implemen...
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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a series of diplomatic discussions with a number of high-level African delegations who attended the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) fro...
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