Nataliia Shapoval

WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 18: International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva speaks during a press briefing on “Global Policy Agenda” at the IMF headquarters on April 18, 2024 in Washington, DC. The World Bank and IMF annual Spring Meetings are held from April 15 – 20, 2024 in Washington. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

After 2 years of peddling Putin’s propaganda, the IMF is returning to Russia in open defiance of the West

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Tymofiy Mylovanov, and others

MOSCOW, RUSSIA – DECEMBER 7: Russian president Vladimir Putin participates in the annual investment forum “Russia calling!” at the World Trade Center on December 7, 2023 in Moscow, Russia. The Russian bank VTB Capital initiated its annual forum with the opening day event. (Photo by Vladimir Pesnya/Epsilon/Getty Images)

‘Parroting Putin’s propaganda’: The business exodus over Ukraine was no Russian bonanza

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Tymofiy Mylovanov, and others

A local resident carries her baby outside of their residential building partially destroyed after a missile strike in Kharkiv on January 30, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by SERGEY BOBOK / AFP) (Photo by SERGEY BOBOK/AFP via Getty Images)

How the free media were duped by a fake pro-Putin list of Western companies still doing business in Russia a year into the Ukraine invasion

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Tymofiy Mylovanov, and others