What makes Musk’s business model turn technological ambition into record-breaking value? And what does this phenomenon tell us about an economy where hopes for the future increasingly outweigh profits "here and now"?

Continuation of hybrid warfare, direct invasion, or a deterrent strike: we examine three of the most realistic scenarios

The daughter of Uzbekistan’s first president, Islam Karimov, is once again in the spotlight of the world’s media. She has been summoned to a Swiss court in a corruption case. Bringing this case to a close would make it possible to return about a billion dollars to the country’s state budget. But in Tashkent they refused even to temporarily release Karimova from prison

The USSR as a political project began with the idea of world revolution. Continuing Viktor Suvorov’s conclusions in <em>Icebreaker</em>, historian Alexander Gogun shows what that idea degenerated into under Stalin