Editor's Note: This story was sponsored by the Ukrainian software development company Kitrum. Ukrainian tech entrepreneur Vlad Kytainyk, 34, has spent substantial time in the U.S. building his...

The streets of Kyiv offer a staggering contrast with alarming headlines from the West. Traffic jams keep clogging the Ukrainian capital, people keep flocking shops, and “coming soon”...

The contemporary history of the post-Soviet countries in Eurasia is the history of resource-oriented economies. These countries used to export what they managed to mine or grow. But...