Russia and Ukraine finally break up

Prominent Russian journalist Leonid Bershidsky writes in Bloomberg that the separation of Ukraine from Russia will probably be completed in 2016, and Ukrainians have more to look forward to than Russians. Ukraine remains corrupt and has an incompetent government, but...

Russia’s ruble hits lowest level in a year

The ruble fell to 73.2 to the dollar on Wednesday, the weakest Russia’s currency has been in a year, AP reports. The ruble lost 40 percent of its value in 2014 and has lost 20 percent of its value compared to a year ago.   Read original...