• OPINION

  US tech must beat Trump's policies

  News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 08/02/2017

  » Few tech workers come from the seven countries affected by President Donald Trump's entry ban. But the 97 US companies, most of them from the tech sector, that lent their support to the State of Washington's lawsuit aiming to block Mr Trump's executive order, have good reasons to fight it every step of the way.

• OPINION

  Time to avoid Google and Facebook

  News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 09/02/2017

  » A Philadelphia court has made the unfortunate decision to reopen the legal debate on whether the US has the right to access e-mails stored on foreign servers if they belong to US companies. If Magistrate Thomas Rueter's ruling stands, anyone using US-based internet companies will have to live with the knowledge that, as far as the US government is concerned, it's America wherever they operate.

• OPINION

  Keep your children well away from connected toys

  News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 02/03/2017

  » How dangerous is a teddy bear or a doll? In the Internet of Things era, it's not an idle question but one for parents and regulators to ponder seriously.

• OPINION

  Putin sees himself as world's 'chess grandmaster'

  News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 09/01/2017

  » Russian President Vladimir Putin is on a roll. The catalog of his alarming moves is well-known: aggression in Ukraine, interference in Syria on the side of President Bashar al-Assad, stepped-up intelligence efforts that may include a hybrid operation to discredit Hillary Clinton, a slick, prolific propaganda machine, support for nationalist and populist movements in Europe. But why is Mr Putin doing all this?

• OPINION

  US-EU trade negotiations getting hung up on politics

  News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 31/08/2016

  » Germany's vice-chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, says talks about a major trade deal between the European Union and the US have failed, though "nobody is really admitting it". That statement should be taken with a grain of salt, but the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) appears to be doomed, at least until after elections in the US and major European countries.

• OPINION

  There is no rule book for doing away with corruption

  News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 16/05/2016

  » UK Prime Minister David Cameron's anti-corruption summit coincided with the release of an International Monetary Fund staff paper that explains why corruption is bad for economies and suggests ways to eradicate it. But neither these recommendations nor those expressed at the forum will do much to fix the developing world's problems. That would require much more than better anti-graft laws and dogged enforcement.

• OPINION

  Politicians should be keeping their money at home

  News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 07/04/2016

  » Ramon Fonseca, a founding partner of Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian offshore incorporator that has suffered the biggest leak of privileged information in history, has told Financial Times that the investigations stemming from the leak are an attack on the basic human right to privacy. Dmitri Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, described them as an attack on his boss ahead of the 2018 presidential election. The investigative journalists themselves see their effort as a strike against corruption and money-laundering. So what purpose do the Panama Papers investigations really serve?

• OPINION

  Panama Papers blame-game hides the real issue

  News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 18/04/2016

  » Last week, a respected Russia scholar in the US speculated that the Kremlin might be behind the so-called Panama Papers, the big dump of data about offshore accounts that has implicated several countries' officials in shady dealings. And on Thursday, President Vladimir Putin of Russia blamed the US for the leak.

• OPINION

  Emissions lawsuit tipped to scare VW out of US market

  News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 07/01/2016

  » The US government's lawsuit against Volkswagen threatens the German automaker with such heavy penalties that, in hindsight, it may not have been worth it for VW to be present in the US market at all.

• OPINION

  David Bowie, artist and visionary businessman

  News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 13/01/2016

  » David Bowie was that rare kind of rock star, you didn't have to like his music to admire him. Bowie was a business visionary like the ones who shaped Silicon Valley who just didn't see the point of building companies. He was his own greatest product. 

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