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Leonid Bershidsky

August 2022

The total cost to make an English breakfast has risen to £31.92 ($55.40), from £27.93 in July 2021

The great English breakfast is almost a luxury these days

Bloomberg’s monthly Breakfast Index shows the average price of a traditional full-English has jumped nearly 17 per cent from a year ago.

January 2022

Bitcoin does not have enough users to start the next technology revolution.

If crypto disappeared would anybody actually notice?

The idea that a whole new crypto-based version of the World Wide Web is coming down the track does not hold up in the numbers.

November 2021

The has pipeline network is at the heart of Putin’s diplomacy.

Putin’s priority is selling gas, not waging war

Despite piling the pressure on to Ukraine, it is really the Russian leader who is being kept in suspense on the fate of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline

October 2021

The relative thinness of these findings suggests that Putin and his people have drawn conclusions from previous revelations, such as the Panama Papers.

The Pandora revelations about Putin’s money are slim pickings

Blocked by post-Ukraine sanctions from storing their loot in the West, the Russian kleptocracy has turned its attention to coup-proofing the regime.

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