Philip Ammerman

The Financial Time has a brilliant Lunch with the FT interview with Timothy Snyder, the Yale historian whose "Making of Modern Ukraine"...

Bloomberg Law sent samples of baby food distributed in the United States to chemical laboratories for testing. The results? Baby food in...

I'm surprised at the arrogance shown by Bloomberg’s Editors to call the Democratic Party “out of touch” in its 8 November editorial. ...

Like many others, I’ve been watching the UK Gov meltdown with astonishment. Part of this is a sourcing issue: 3 of 9 mainstream media I...

Today President Putin announced a partial call-up of 300,000 reservists, and repeated his threat on the use of nuclear weapons. I have...

Matthew Karnitschnig published a logically absurd article in Politico on September 8th. Entitled “Putin's attack on democracy is working....

I have been reading obituaries marketing the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, who died yesterday at the age of 91. Let me begin this post by...

I’m sitting here at Costa Coffee on a Saturday morning, hard at work. The place is absolutely full of beautiful young people. Sometimes...

Reading the Financial Times this morning, I came across this: EU capitals should consider seizing frozen Russian foreign exchange...

Another depressing and entirely predictable conversation yesterday. I won't say where or with whom: it's irrelevant. The conversation was...

Although the outlook in Ukraine looks bleak, the message I am getting from a very wide range of sources is that the majority of Russian...

A quick update for my friends and associates. The last few months have not been easy. I've been struggling with exhaustion and some major...

Photo (c) Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock / CNN On February 24th, Russia mounted an unprovoked and unwarranted invasion of Ukraine....

I worked for the Rubezhnoye Board & Packaging Factory between 2001 and 2013 on a variety of projects, including three major investment...

Like so many others, I’ve been tied to the news about Ukraine. I’ve worked there between 1999 and 2018, mainly on investment projects,...

Photo (c) Anadolu / Getty Images from The Guardian I wonder what kind of system invests billions in the illusion of being a great power...

An idle thought this morning. This year is the bicentennial of the Greek revolution. On 25 March 1821, the Revolution broke out (earlier...

What strikes me with every visit to the Acropolis Museum is how intensely our ancestors believed in a common set of values and ethos, and...

I am increasingly amused at the government’s invention of a coronavirus safety product where no product exists. The SafePass. We keep...

It's difficult to understand just why systems here in Cyprus are underperforming so dramatically. On Sunday, I visited friends staying at...