Putin: Russia has no enemies in Ukraine
Tuesday, 04 March 2014 13:57
Ukraine is a friendly state for Russia, and Russia has no enemies there, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at today's press conference. On March 4, Putin held a press conference in his Novo-Ogaryovo residence to comment the events in Ukraine. This is the first time, when the Russian leader gives public comments on the situation in Ukraine...
 
Can Russia save Ukraine?
Monday, 03 March 2014 16:01
The State Duma of the Russian Federation has registered a bill about the annexation of the Crimea to the Russian Federation. The West does not need another "cold war" with Russia. The West does not want to see its relations with Russia in ruins. None of NATO countries will go to war with Russia because of the conflict...
 
Will Russia go to war to win Ukraine's Crimea?
Thursday, 27 February 2014 15:33
Russian troops are already located in the Crimea. This is a contingent that is located there under an interstate agreement about a military base. The strength of the contingent can not be increased in violation of the agreement. The republic of Crimea, in accordance with the laws of Ukraine, is subordinated to the central government...
 
Sochi Games return five percent of spending
Wednesday, 26 February 2014 11:07
The closing ceremony of the 22nd Olympic Games won by the Russians was held in Sochi on Sunday. It will be relatively quiet in the Olympic Village until March 7 when the Paralympic Games 2014 start. It is time to calculate the revenues and funds spent on holding this grand sporting event. What are the profits from the 2014 Olympics?...
 
Great economic miracle of Russia: Myth or reality?
Tuesday, 25 February 2014 10:13
In Russia, 27 percent of the population live below the poverty line, while in 2011 the percentage of impoverished population was 18 percent. This means that over the past two and a half years the population of the Russian Federation has been greatly impoverished. This is associated with the withdrawal of money abroad at a catastrophic scale...
 
Sochi: Spectacular success
Sunday, 23 February 2014 23:15
Sochi delivered all it promised, a spectacular success in providing top-class venues and a wonderfully friendly and professional atmosphere welcoming the athletes, providing the backdrop for a party which lasted seventeen days and which will remain in the hearts and minds of Olympic Games fans for many years to come....
 
​China passes India as world’s leading gold consumer
Friday, 24 January 2014 17:35
Published time: January 24, 2014 16:35
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Reuters / Bobby Yip

China has outpaced India in terms of gold consumption in 2013, with people there increasingly investing in the precious metal, according to the Thomson Reuters GFMS Gold Survey.

The influential report says...

 
Pussy Riot: Behind the balaclavas
Friday, 24 January 2014 16:00

Last month, Nadya and Maria of Pussy Riot were released. Masha Gessen, who corresponded with the women in prison, examines how their trial became the first battle in Putin's 'war on modernity' – and a dark moment in Russian history

"I threw a fit," Nadya said. "I screamed until they gave me the book." This was one of the nicest things anyone...

 
US federal court dents Shell Arctic oil ambition
Friday, 24 January 2014 12:54
Published time: January 24, 2014 11:54
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The conical drilling unit Kulluk sits (Reuters / U.S. Coast Guard / Petty Officer 2nd Class Zachary Painter / Handout / Files)

​The ambition of Shell to start extracting oil in the Alaska shelf in Arctic waters this summer has f...

 
Bitcoin is a bubble - Nobel Laureate in Economics
Friday, 24 January 2014 11:45
Published time: January 24, 2014 10:45
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Robert J. Shiller, Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University attends a session at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 24, 2014. (Reuters / Denis Balibouse)

Robert Shiller, 2013 Nobel Prize...

 
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