by Sam Wilkin | Jul 22, 2004 | Blog
Russia’s economy is booming and its debt rated investment grade. And yet, in the past week alone – a near-miss bank run, threats of bankruptcy for energy giant Yukos, and the editor of Forbes magazine’s Russia edition gunned down in an apparent contract hit. Where is...
by Sam Wilkin | Jul 21, 2004 | Blog
Russia’s economy is booming and its debt rated investment grade. And yet, in the past week alone – a near-miss bank run, threats of bankruptcy for energy giant Yukos, and the editor of Forbes magazine’s Russia edition gunned down in an apparent contract hit. Where is...
by Sam Wilkin | Jun 29, 2004 | Blog
President Robert Mugabe’s program of seizing white-owned farmland has brought Zimbabwe to the brink of famine but has genuine popular appeal in the region. Namibia has announced it will begin expropriating white-owned farms; South Africa is debating how to speed up...
by Sam Wilkin | Jun 22, 2004 | Blog
In the past two years Saudi Arabia has suffered a series of brutal terrorist attacks, most recently the beheading of an American. Growing alarm about the country’s stability is driving up oil prices. Is Saudi Arabia coming undone? “Saudi Arabia’s thirst for bootleg...
by Sam Wilkin | Jun 8, 2004 | Blog
Just as a peace deal has been signed between Sudan’s north and south, a new civil war has erupted in the country’s west. One million people have been driven from their homes and face death from starvation and disease in what the UN calls the world’s worst humanitarian...
by Sam Wilkin | Jun 1, 2004 | Blog
Attempts by India’s governing party, the BJP, to play up the country’s recent economic success and take credit for it backfired spectacularly. India’s rural poor, it emerged, did not buy the success – much less give anyone credit. So the BJP is out and the Congress...
