published Aug 29, 2018, 6:00:17 AM, by The Editors (The Bloomberg View) — Vladimir Putin faces an enormous challenge. He wants to deliver prosperity to Russians before 2024, when the constitution says his presidency must end, but the economy is no longer cooperating. For this unhelpful economic outlook, Russia’s president

published Dec 10, 2018, 4:00:00 PM, by Michael S. Arnold and Dana Khraiche(Bloomberg) — The bulldozers growling as soldiers sealed a tunnel that crossed beneath Lebanon’s border into Israel provided the kind of prop Benjamin Netanyahu loves. The Israeli prime minister told diplomats who’d braved fierce rains that Lebanon’s Hezbollah group