Recession à la Russe
Friday, 03 May 2013 10:35
Published time: May 03, 2013 08:35
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Russia may soon lose its ‘safe heaven’ status and fall into recession, experts warn. Some classify the coming slowdown as ‘autonomous’, others don’t distinguish it from the global drama, but a continuous economic weakening is without doubt.

The alarm bells around the...

 
Russians hope Mariinsky II will revive Saint Petersburg as cultural capital
Thursday, 02 May 2013 20:04

Vladimir Putin is to attend gala concert for opening of new ballet and opera house, 10 years in development

Amid the winding canals and stately 19th-century buildings that line the streets of St Petersburg, the Mariinsky theatre's new ballet and opera house, inaugurated to great fanfare on Thursday, stands like a glass-encased curiosity.

To some it...

 
Speeding up trains in Russia
Thursday, 02 May 2013 11:54
Published time: May 02, 2013 09:54
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While transportation remains one of the biggest issues for Russia, the country is trying to add speed to its trains, the most beloved way of travelling for most Russians. A high-speed railway connecting Moscow with the Urals is the latest initiative.

In autumn 2013 the...

 
Russia to spend over $30 billion in nuclear energy development
Wednesday, 01 May 2013 20:48
Published time: May 01, 2013 18:48
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Russia will expend one trillion rubles ($31.3 billion) to develop its nuclear power industry through to 2015. Russia’s next-generation nuclear power plants will have an improved safety design, as well as an improved water desalination system.

“Nuclear security and n...

 
Crackdown on Russia's civil society after Putin's return to the Presidency
Monday, 29 April 2013 23:17

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International who watched NATO kill 50,000 blacks, women and children in Libya are agitating because the laws passed by the Russian Duma interfere in the work of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), seeks to cast government critics as clandestine enemies, thereby threatening the viability of Russia's civil society....

 
Putin: 'There's no Stalinism in Russia and never will be'
Friday, 26 April 2013 14:56
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a regular televised Q&A conference with Russian citizens on April 25th. As in the previous times, there were plenty of issues to discuss. Evaluating the style of his policy, Putin said that it was impossible to compare the current model of governance with that of Stalin's era...
 
Russian space industry recovers from hibernation
Thursday, 25 April 2013 09:58
In the past year, the Russian space program and related industries seem to have gotten out of the state of economic hibernation. It appears that the industry's stagnation is over, and distant and near prospects have been identified in a recent large-scale meeting near the new cosmodrome in the Far East...
 
Angola deal to repay debt to Russia exposes EU tax havens
Wednesday, 24 April 2013 15:57

Case provides vivid example of plundering that can take place in developing nations with complicity of European banks and tax havens

A newly published report on a corrupt deal for the repayment of the Angola debt to Russia in the early 1990s was presented at the European parliament on Tuesday as a vivid example of the plundering that can take place...

 
FDCS proposes new way of filtering Internet content
Wednesday, 24 April 2013 15:12
The Foundation for the Development of Civil Society is soon to publish a major report concerning a very contentious subject: the use of the Russian Internet for political purposes and consequent censorship of the Internet and filtering content. Anyone who is interested in politics is aware of the existence in Russia of a blacklist of websites...
 
ECB could cut interest rates next month
Wednesday, 24 April 2013 13:38
Published time: April 24, 2013 11:38
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Weaker-than-expected manufacturing data in the Eurozone, and Germany in particular, is prompting rumours of a possible interest rates cut. The European Central Bank could be poised to reduce the base rate from 0.75% as soon as next...

 
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