French presidential elections 2022 have significantly strengthened anti-EU populists. Traditional mainstream centrists are not among the big three election winners, while far-right Marine Le Pen deftly addressed the plight of the disengaged. The country’s rural-urban divide masks significant...

The existing geopolitical context is capable of endowing seemingly ordinary business events in one or other economic branch with almost global significance. One of the examples of this trend is the recent announcement, by a Japanese state-owned bank, of its readiness to finance a new natural gas...

Russia's economic landscape of the past few weeks, and especially its international economic environment, were characterized by a bizarre combination of mostly positive facts and grim misgivings regarding the possible expansion of sanctions and the predominantly positive facts

For nearly a decade, the G20 has united leaders of developed and developing countries to deal with common challenges. There are different assessments of its role in handling the crisis and solving global management issues. But it is obvious that amid the changing situation in the world,...

Global financial markets are being dominated by upbeat sentiments in the face of official statistics that show major economies are slowing. Market volatility in developed countries is on the slide as the attractiveness of developing countries' assets is on the rise. However, economic agents'...

The reform to switch over from budget financing of state-financed entities to payment of their services on the basis of unified cost standards was declared more than a decade ago, but actually launched only in 2016. At the new stage of the reform, it is planned to give up the practice of...

The rhetoric of Donald Trump, as well as some of his actions, have given rise to a lot of questions as to what will be the United States' future policy toward certain leading international organizations like the UN, G7, the EU, and the WTO. This policy will certainly undergo a number of changes,...

It was during his election campaign that US President Donald Trump put forth a number of domestic economic policy proposals, which, once implemented, may not only alter the rules of game in the US economy, but also significantly influence the entire global economy

Individual differences in perceptions of the scale and duration of crisis phenomena are largely determined by the socio-professional status of a person and by his or her particular field of activity. The current economic situation is most negatively perceived by those engaged in industry and the...

The collapse of global stock markets triggered by infighting in Washington's halls of power and by controversial evaluations of Fed's monetary policy, as well as dizzying plunge of oil prices, the US-China trade and economic war which has entered the phase of arrests – this is by far not the...