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Leonid Bershidsky

Leonid Bershidsky is a Bloomberg View contributor. He is a Berlin-based writer, author of three novels and two nonfiction books. Bershidsky was the founding editor of Russia’s top business daily, Vedomosti, a joint project of Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal, and the first publisher of the Russian edition of Forbes. He also founded the opinion website Slon.ru; ran the business book arm of Russia’s biggest book publisher, Eksmo; and worked as managing director at KIT Finance investment bank. He has an MBA from Insead in Fontainebleau, France.

Articles by Leonid Bershidsky

Sept. 22, 2016, 9:26 am

Leonid Bershidsky: Russian-Americans don’t all back Trump

Sept. 21, 2016, 8:49 am

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin may not really want a Syria deal

Sept. 20, 2016, 9:34 am

Leonid Bershidsky: Russians used to love Putin. Now? Meh.

Sept. 13, 2016, 12:35 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin promotes the next generation of ideological cronies

Sept. 12, 2016, 10:03 am

Leonid Bershidsky: U.S.-Russian Syria deal lacks a key element

Sept. 9, 2016, 1:40 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Snowden is turning into a liability for Putin

Sept. 7, 2016, 8:40 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: A nationalist Eastern Europe could reshape the EU

Sept. 7, 2016, 10:14 am

Leonid Bershidsky: Another billionaire incurs Putin’s wrath

Aug. 11, 2016, 4:25 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin fans the flames in Ukraine once again

Aug. 1, 2016, 4:40 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Trump’s Ukraine gaffe actually makes some sense

July 22, 2016, 2:23 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Trump puts America’s allies on notice

July 20, 2016, 10:46 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Why Putin won’t admit the truth about doping

July 20, 2016, 10:33 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Trump’s manager is a master of post-Soviet business

July 13, 2016, 4:33 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: World War II isn’t quite over for Poland and Ukraine

July 8, 2016, 5:42 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: A distracted Europe leaves Ukraine vulnerable

July 7, 2016, 10:57 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: NATO сan reduce the threat of escalation with Russia

July 6, 2016, 10:00 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Russia is not dying from a brain drain

July 5, 2016, 4:45 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Russians are eager to embrace Turkey again

June 22, 2016, 8:23 am

Leonid Bershidsky: All Russians are tainted by Putin’s regime

June 16, 2016, 4:15 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: The Orthodox church stays in the Dark Ages

May 26, 2016, 7:43 am

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin lost out in prisoner swap with Ukraine

May 18, 2016, 9:03 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: The West shouldn’t fear Russia’s ‘hybrid warfare’

May 17, 2016, 7:06 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Eurovision’s music drowns out politics

May 12, 2016, 10:27 am

Leonid Bershidsky: Ukraine’s free trade deal was just a start

April 27, 2016, 12:14 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Ignoring the lessons of Chornobyl

April 25, 2016, 9:11 am

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin badly needs a domestic plan

April 21, 2016, 12:17 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Crimean bridge measures the span of Putin’s ambitions

April 19, 2016, 8:43 am

Leonid Bershidsky: Russian security chief makes Putin seem tame

April 18, 2016, 7:45 am

Leonid Bershidsky: Were the Panama Papers planted? Who cares.

April 15, 2016, 9:40 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: In Ukraine, expats and romantics are out

April 12, 2016, 9:05 am

Leonid Bershidsky: New leadership, same old Ukraine

April 11, 2016, 8:38 am

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin gets his own army

April 7, 2016, 4:19 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: There’s no Dutch treat for Ukraine’s Poroshenko

April 7, 2016, 9:09 am

Leonid Bershidsky: The Soviet Union is falling apart again

April 5, 2016, 7:07 am

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin’s a pauper, his friends are rich

March 8, 2016, 11:35 am

Leonid Bershidsky: The US election’s echoes of 1996 Russia

March 7, 2016, 3:12 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Russia missed its chance to be like America

Feb. 23, 2016, 7:00 am

Leonid Bershidsky: Why Russia stopped at Crimea

Feb. 15, 2016, 2:14 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Pope Francis handed Putin a diplomatic victory

Feb. 13, 2016, 9:51 am

Leonid Bershidsky: A better question about Clinton and Kissinger

Feb. 4, 2016, 7:31 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Ukraine reformer pulls back curtain on corruption

Jan. 30, 2016, 10:58 am

Leonid Bershidsky: US knows about corruption in Russia

Jan. 12, 2016, 10:00 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: How Ukraine weaned itself off Russian gas

Jan. 7, 2016, 5:27 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Russians have learned how to hack power grids

Jan. 7, 2016, 10:31 am

Leonid Bershidsky: Coca-Cola put Crimea on the map, then took it off

Jan. 4, 2016, 10:16 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin makes his isolationism official

Dec. 31, 2015, 12:58 am

Leonid Bershidsky: Ukraine, Russia finally break up

Dec. 22, 2015, 11:23 am

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin’s 2015 foreign policy score card

Dec. 21, 2015, 12:11 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Get ahead in Russia? Lie about your education

Dec. 16, 2015, 7:35 am

Leonid Bershidsky: Ukraine’s politics descend into slapstick

Dec. 15, 2015, 9:04 am

Leonid Bershidsky: Watch what Putin does to his top prosecutor

Dec. 10, 2015, 6:33 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Invaders can’t expect debt repayment

Dec. 9, 2015, 10:13 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Stolen art hampers Ukraine’s EU progress

Dec. 8, 2015, 10:52 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Biden tells Ukraine to … do nothing

Dec. 6, 2015, 10:52 am

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin looks homeward, hates what he sees

Nov. 26, 2015, 1:26 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin doesn’t mind oil’s fall

Nov. 24, 2015, 7:43 am

Leonid Bershidsky: Ukraine bids for attention with Crimea blackout

Nov. 17, 2015, 7:29 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin wants victory, not detente

Nov. 6, 2015, 8:52 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Ukraine is in danger of becoming a failed state

Nov. 5, 2015, 2:57 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin’s fortress Russia takes its toll

Oct. 28, 2015, 10:58 am

Leonid Bershidsky: Russian casualties would take a toll on Assad

Oct. 27, 2015, 7:08 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Ukrainians get their day in (European) Court

Oct. 26, 2015, 9:24 pm

Leonid Bershidsky: Why a ‘Star Wars’ emperor won office in Ukraine

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