The Economist's coverage of Eastern Europe is worthless, at best. Their Eastern Europe correspondent, Edward Lucas, also writes for The Daily Mail. You can see

The Economist's coverage of Eastern Europe is worthless, at best. Their Eastern Europe correspondent, Edward Lucas, also writes for The Daily Mail. You can see his work here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/dmsearch/overture.html?in_page_id=711&in_overture_ua=cat&in_start_number=0&in_restriction=byline&in_query=edward%20lucas&in_name=on&in_order_by=relevance+date http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/dmsearch/overture.html?in_p... He has a book out, called The New Cold War. And he's selling it, both to idiots who read The Daily Mail, and the fine (if not very well informed on this particular subject) people who read The Economist.