When Russia's state statistics agency released its initial estimates of 2018 economic growth on February 4, it caught economists, investment bankers, financial analysts, and many others off-guard.

It wasn't because the reported gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 2.3 percent was earth-shattering, or even that it was the country's strongest showing in six years. It was that Rosstat's figure bettered even the most optimistic forecasts, with experts having predicted something in the range of 1.8 to 2.1 percent.

Vladislav Surkov’s job has always been to get people talking about everything except what’s real.

On Feb. 11, the ill-reputed Vladislav Surkov, now personal advisor to President Vladimir Putin on Ukraine, published another magnum opus that will almost surely have the pundits hopping. In the spirit of public service, then, here’s a preemptive debunking: Surkov’s a shill.

Three years after the Maidan Revolution Freedom Today Network visited Ukraine to learn about the current situation, speak to Ukrainians and experts about the future of the country on the black sea.

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The size of the global automation market is forecast to reach $200 billion by 2020.¹ As more industries deploy machines and comput

Johan Norberg is a Swedish author and historian, devoted to promoting economic globalization and classical liberal positions. He is arguably most known as the author of In Defense of Global Capitalism (2001) and Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future (2016). He is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, an the executive editor at Free To Choose Media.

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