Comecon, the trade bloc that has yoked Eastern Europe`s economies to Moscow for four decades, convened in Bulgaria recently. . . . At the top of the agenda was the desire of the new governments ...

Although the COMECON nations and Red China last week agreed on a 40% to 50% cut in air fares within the Red bloc, COMECON has been able to reach agreement on production assignments to members in ...

COMECON claims that all Eastern economies are growing faster than those of Western Europe. They should, because they started from so much farther back.

It established the COMECON, the so-called Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. That was a deliberate misnomer. At the core of COMECON then, and of Trump’s trade policy now, ...

Comecon is being recreated. After realigning Ukraine as a satellite state Vladimir Putin has now persuaded the Hungarian government to accept Russian technology in its nuclear sector.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Havana may be a looking-glass kind of place. Still, occasionally its topsy-turvey view of the world can ...

In 1952, COMECON handed down the edict that Tatra, a company that had been building cars since 1897, should focus only on making trucks. Luxury cars, COMECON decreed, could only come from the ...