Despite sanctions, a brain drain, investor withdrawal, inflation, high interest rates, falling oil prices and reducing reserves, Vladimir Putin thinks Russia's economy is A-grade. Is it?
Closure, airspace, sanctions, spare parts, subsidies, re-registrations, and re-routing woes plague carriers that used to fly over Russia. How has it affected their bottom line? Al Majalla explains.
Oil remains at the forefront of the wider impact of Israel's war on Gaza, but other implications will be felt for years to come, including currency factors.
The Ukraine war has shrunk Russia's ability to export weapons, but Western sanctions and Moscow's damaged global image have also made importers more reluctant to buy Russian arms.
The war in Gaza has given the Kremlin powerful grounds for accusing the West of double standards. This explains why President Vladimir Putin's rhetoric has changed to sound more anti-Israeli.
Workers in former Soviet states have long headed for work over the border, but migrants ending up in the army are now a deterrent and alongside lower wages, jobs are now on offer elsewhere
The jailed Palestinian author won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for his book, 'A Mask, the Colour of the Sky', which tells the story of a Palestinian man who finds and uses an Israeli ID
The very public disagreements between Washington and Tel Aviv over Gaza in recent weeks are both rare and telling, yet this transatlantic alliance has weathered far more severe storms
The first comprehensive regulation of AI by a major regulator assigns applications of AI to three risk categories. Offering protection while allowing for innovation provides a useful template.