Until recently one of Vladimir Putin closest allies, former Russian Railways CEO Vladimir Yakunin, has launched a think tank in Berlin. The Dialogue of Civilizations Institute says it will focus on six “areas of research”, including “Economics of Post-Modernity: When Conventional Models Fail” and “East and West: Bridging the Post-Modernity (post-‘Global’?) Gap”, Deutsche Welle reports from the German capital.The German broadcasters says Yakunin, sanctioned by the U.S. after the Crimea annexation, will spend €25 million of his own money over the next five years, and that the think tank denies taking any financing from the Kremlin. For once, a statement …read more
Source: The American Interest