Charles Hecker

Russian oil is back

8 March 2026 8:17 pm

Donald Trump on Thursday allowed India to import more Russian oil. India recently did a deal with the US that…

Does Davos calm the polycrisis, or make it worse?

24 January 2026 4:30 pm

A most unlikely proposition emerged this week in Davos. Larry Fink, interim co-head of the World Economic Forum, proposed moving…

What business does America have in Russia?

23 February 2025 12:59 am

It didn’t take long for preliminary discussions between the US and Russia on Ukraine to morph into something dramatically more…

Could Russia and America ever have got along?

26 January 2025 4:30 pm

A revealing, damning and fascinating diplomatic memorandum, sent in 1994 from the US embassy in Moscow to the State Department…

Why Carlsberg left Russia

12 December 2024 2:39 am

Carlsberg, the brewing giant whose presence in Russia transformed that country’s beverage market, has left. What remains is the lingering…