Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Putin is repeating a Soviet-era mistake, which is ruining Russia's economy, Poland's foreign minister said. Speaking at Davos, ...

Long before Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet planners and economists engaged in wide-ranging debates about economic reform. But they never seriously considered the option of a genuinely participatory, ...

In Russia, the tradition of making fun of Soviet economic planning is almost as old as attempts to improve the economic system. “What would happen if socialism were built in the Sahara?” an old joke ...

The Soviet economy was born out of revolution, civil war, ideology, and survival. Lenin experimented with limited market ...

Russia's economic conditions are similar to the Soviet Union's, the IMF's deputy manager said. The country is spending heavily, while consumption has seen a considerable pullback. Wartime expenditures ...

THE trade strategy of Soviet Russia has been created inevitably as a consequence of two principles basic to the structure of the Communist state -- repudiation of the debts of preceding governments ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Nikolai Ryzhkov, a former Soviet prime minister who presided over botched efforts to shore up the crumbling national economy in the final years of the USSR, has died. He was 94. During ...

Speaking at Davos, Radoslaw Sikorski said Putin was overspending on the military and bankrupting Russia. "He was very insistent that this mistake should not be repeated. And he's doing exactly that," ...

Putin is repeating a Soviet-era mistake, which is ruining Russia's economy, Poland's foreign minister said. Speaking at Davos, Radoslaw Sikorski said Putin was overspending on the military and ...