Leonid Bershidsky

Putin's claim to power has evolved over his nearly 22 years atop the Kremlin

The invasion has certainly delivered a series of shocks to global commodity markets that have threatened the food security of the most vulnerable countries, especially African ones

More than three months into the so-called "special military operation," the Kremlin has made no official announcement about how it sees the future of the territories it has grabbed

In the German industrial lobby's view, China's policy of creating national champions in key industries isn't an inefficiency of Chinese central planning

The noisy, imprecise data collected by internet giants clearly contain a lot of jewels if one knows how to sift for them. Yet it's not easy to see how the sifting can be much more useful than traditio

The year 2015 may have been the year that the European Union pulled through the worst of its troubles

The oil cartel's decision to raise its output ceiling is aimed at augmenting market share, while simultaneously taking on American shale oil companies and undermining Russia in European markets

With testing likely to become more rigorous in the US and Europe, carmakers will have two options: ensure the emissions performance of all new diesel cars is irreproachable or shift production towards

Samsung is trying things that its competitors haven't had the chutzpah to attempt. It has partnered Oculus, one of Facebook's hottest acquisitions, to produce a virtual reality headset powered by a sm

The time users spend with the Facebook app is stagnating or slowly diminishing

In 2013, Apple's share of new smartphones shipped - 17.6% in the final quarter of that year - was dwarfed by the combined heft of all the Android makers with 78.1%

In the global sportswear market, Nike Inc is No. 1 with a 17 per cent share. Adidas AG is second with 12 per cent

Windows revenue won't disappear, if only because corporate clients have already invested in the operating system and aren't going to drop it in the foreseeable future