Philip Ammerman

Reading the Financial Times this morning, I came across this: EU capitals should consider seizing frozen Russian foreign exchange...

Another depressing and entirely predictable conversation yesterday. I won't say where or with whom: it's irrelevant. The conversation was...

Although the outlook in Ukraine looks bleak, the message I am getting from a very wide range of sources is that the majority of Russian...

A quick update for my friends and associates. The last few months have not been easy. I've been struggling with exhaustion and some major...

Photo (c) Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock / CNN On February 24th, Russia mounted an unprovoked and unwarranted invasion of Ukraine....

I worked for the Rubezhnoye Board & Packaging Factory between 2001 and 2013 on a variety of projects, including three major investment...

Like so many others, I’ve been tied to the news about Ukraine. I’ve worked there between 1999 and 2018, mainly on investment projects,...

Photo (c) Anadolu / Getty Images from The Guardian I wonder what kind of system invests billions in the illusion of being a great power...

An idle thought this morning. This year is the bicentennial of the Greek revolution. On 25 March 1821, the Revolution broke out (earlier...

What strikes me with every visit to the Acropolis Museum is how intensely our ancestors believed in a common set of values and ethos, and...

I am increasingly amused at the government’s invention of a coronavirus safety product where no product exists. The SafePass. We keep...

It's difficult to understand just why systems here in Cyprus are underperforming so dramatically. On Sunday, I visited friends staying at...

I learned this morning of the failure of the $ 15 minimum wage proposal in the Senate. I am not surprised. We are in the middle of a...

You would think that somewhere, sometime there would be a limit to the criminal buffoonery that has become normal in the United States....

Back in February 2019, I published an article in the Successful Business Magazine in Cyprus on the Cyprus Citizenship by Investment...

Imagine that today is 7 January 2030 and we are looking back through the foggy reminiscences and self-invented truths that constitute our...

Photo (c) BBC Today is Election Day in the United States, and voting stations will open soon. While most opinion polls show Joe Biden...

There is a good article on trade, manufacturing, unions and politics in The New Yorker by Dan Kaufmann: Will Trump's broken promises to...

Today is OXI Day, the anniversary of Greece’s entry into the Second World War. As with most anniversaries, it’s a time for reflection...

Today, Cyprus celebrates the 60th anniversary of its independence from Great Britain.