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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

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin offers false comfort to Western conservatives

Leonid Bershidsky: Zuckerberg seeks salvation in metaverse

Leonid Bershidsky: Don’t celebrate defeat of Austria’s conservative star

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Leonid Bershidsky: A Nobel Prize for Russian compromise

Leonid Bershidsky: Why Putin’s money eludes offshore investigators

Leonid Bershidsky: I couldn’t vote in Germany’s election

Leonid Bershidsky: In Russia’s so-called election, tech was a big loser

Leonid Bershidsky: Europe’s Afghanistan failure is worse than America’s

Leonid Bershidsky: The agony of Afghans left behind

Leonid Bershidsky: Why Ukraine lives rent-free in Putin’s head

Leonid Bershidsky: Why Putin is having a European moment

Leonid Bershidsky: Lukashenko’s air piracy has no Western precedent

Leonid Bershidsky: ‘Foreign agent’ laws are a blueprint for xenophobia

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin takes the ice for a game that’s over

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin dares to go where Soviet leaders feared to tread

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin’s Ukraine gambit is about gaining attention, not territory

Leonid Bershidsky: Vaccine passports are latest victim of sloppy government data

Leonid Bershidsky: Anti-manual the resistance should read

Leonid Bershidsky: Navalny has a secret weapon

Leonid Bershidsky: Navalny versus Putin is an epic and existential battle

Leonid Bershidsky: Navalny vs. Putin is an epic and existential battle

Leonid Bershidsky: Corruption cuts both ways in Russia’s surveillance state

Leonid Bershidsky: Russia’s new guerilla media are going after Putin

Leonid Bershidsky: Aliyev’s military solution in Karabakh is a loss for Putin

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin’s pick is a bureaucratic superman

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin’s new plan to hold power forever

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin’s latest obsession

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin now needs a Plan B on Iran

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin’s grand gas project makes sense now

Leonid Bershidsky: Ukraine’s Zelensky showed he’s the anti-Putin in 2019

Leonid Bershidsky: In 2019, Putin couldn’t win back Russia’s love

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin and Zelensky didn’t waste their first meeting

Leonid Bershidsky: Blaming document dumps on Russia won’t cut it

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin is seeing ‘foreign agents’ everywhere

Leonid Bershidsky: George Orwell’s ‘1984’ is relevant again

Leonid Bershidsky: The West needs to measure Russian election meddling

Leonid Bershidsky: Why Russia is struggling to build Putin’s grand dream

Leonid Bershidsky: Will Ukraine turn back to Russia?

Leonid Bershidsky: Why Bolivian politics suddenly matters to Putin

Leonid Bershidsky: For Russia, even the language can be a weapon

Leonid Bershidsky: Where Russia’s foreign investment really comes from

Leonid Bershidsky: A Hungarian scorns the euro in quest for more of them

Leonid Bershidsky: The US dithered too long on Nord Stream 2

Leonid Bershidsky: Twitter’s political ad ban is disingenuous

Leonid Bershidsky: Accusing Vindman of divided loyalties makes no sense

Leonid Bershidsky: Diplomat snared in Ukraine scandal needs to stay in the job

Leonid Bershidsky: Ukraine peace talks get some help from Putin

Leonid Bershidsky: Turkey and Russia show that land grabs can pay off

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin’s Russia is a Middle Eastern country

Leonid Bershidsky: US meddling in Ukraine is a disaster

Leonid Bershidsky: No more honeymoon for Ukraine’s president

Leonid Bershidsky: Trump believes some weird stuff about Ukraine

Leonid Bershidsky: Ukraine scandal will prolong a real war

Leonid Bershidsky: Ukraine won’t help Trump get dirt on Biden

Leonid Bershidsky: The US is corrupting Ukraine

Leonid Bershidsky: Europe’s last land frontier is opening up

Leonid Bershidsky: Putin plays a cruel game of catch-and-release

Leonid Bershidsky: Zelenskiy can’t afford to fail his oligarch test

Leonid Bershidsky: EU pipeline ruling helps Ukraine thwart Russia

Leonid Bershidsky: Ukraine and Russia are finally ready to talk peace

Leonid Bershidsky: The Kremlin won – and proved it can’t win fair

Leonid Bershidsky: Why Germany is ignoring its own Russian spy scandal

Leonid Bershidsky: A prisoner swap with Russia tests Ukraine’s president

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