By Fareed Zakaria A bold proposal recently caught my eye: One of Moscow’s top academics says Russia should build a new capital city. This city would be far, far away from Moscow,4,000 milesto be exact — in Vladivostok. Why? Well, the person who proposed the idea, Sergei Karaganov of Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, wrote in […]

by Isabel Gorst Now the elections are out of the way, investors are waiting to see if Vladimir Putin has any new ideas up his sleeve to promote the development of Russia and avoid economic stagnation. One of the country’s leading political scientists has come up with a bold scheme: build a new capital at […]