Putin pilots hang-glider to lead endangered cranes on migration route
Thursday, 06 September 2012 01:45

Russian president's latest stunt was designed to help introduce young cranes born in captivity to the wild

Russian president Vladimir Putin, who has tracked a Siberian tiger and posed with a polar bear, on Wednesday took his love of wildlife to new heights by flying with cranes – to lead them on a migration route.

Putin has communed with wild...

 
ECB to engage in 'unlimited' bond buying - reports
Wednesday, 05 September 2012 21:26
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Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank (AFP Photo/Daniel Roland)

The head of the European Central Bank (ECB) is allegedly planning to combat the Eurozone crisis through the buying of short-term peripheral sovereign debt, according to the information leaked to the press.

Mario Draghi, who will speak at Thursday’s ECB meeting, is e...

 
Putin to pilot hang-glider at head of endangered Siberian crane migration
Wednesday, 05 September 2012 17:08

Russian president will have to wear white overalls and a special 'beak' to be recognised by the cranes

He has shot a grey whale with a sample-collecting dart in the Pacific, released leopards in the Caucasus and "saved journalists from wild tigers", now Vladimir Putin's latest episode of animal antics takes him into the Siberian skies as a...

 
Germany sees record number of complaints against ESM
Wednesday, 05 September 2012 16:02
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Jobless persons register in a job agency (AFP Photo/Jens Schlueter)

A record 37,000 people have filed complaints with Germany's Constitutional Court opposing the European rescue fund, the ESM.

­The president of the “More Democracy” organisation, Roman Huber, told Spiegel magazine, that since the filing of the first complaint, the flow of claims in su...

 
Russian mobile operator MegaFon seeks £2.5bn London flotation
Tuesday, 04 September 2012 20:48

IPO of company controlled by Russia's richest man would be world's biggest since Facebook listed in New York

MegaFon, Russia's second-largest mobile phone operator, is seeking permission for a £2.5bn float in London, the world's biggest since Facebook listed in New York in May.

Russia's richest man, Alisher Usmanov, who took control of the company...

 
Russia's Sukhoi Superjet-100 completely hopeless
Tuesday, 04 September 2012 16:05
The United Aircraft Corporation has contracts to ship only 230 Superjet-100 planes, the ministry said. The solidity of those contracts raises very strong doubts. It transpired that 80% of SSJ is made of imported parts. This Russian plane is mostly foreign-made. A while back, it was served as a strategic idea. However, SSJ does not sell abroad...
 
Market Buzz: Awaiting central bank news
Tuesday, 04 September 2012 07:25
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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.(AFP Photo / Andrew Burton)

Russian stocks are likely to trade higher Tuesday as investors take wait and see position ahead of the European Central Bank’s meeting later this week.

Russian markets advanced Monday with resources shares among the best performers amid hopes of further actions from...

 
Top London law firms profit from feuding Russian oligarchs
Tuesday, 04 September 2012 01:05

Profits at top 100 London law firms increased by 8% to £5.4bn last year, with billings up 17% to £17.7bn, survey shows

Russian oligarchs' taste for British justice helped London lawyers rake in a record-breaking £5bn of profits last year.

Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich may have won his battle against $6.5bn (5bn) of claims by exiled oligarch...

 
US State Department whitewashes Russian NGOs before Russian laws
Monday, 03 September 2012 20:42
The Moscow Helsinki Group and the movement For Human Rights declared the impossibility of applying the status of a "foreign agent" to them. They cite a letter from the U.S. State Department, which supposedly confirms their rightness. The head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, threatened to refuse from foreign grants and go begging...
 
‘Russia needs to improve infrastructure to capitalize on its unique location’
Monday, 03 September 2012 17:27
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A picture taken 09 November 2005 shows the country's second-largest port "St Petersburg" in St Petersburg.(AFP Photo / Sergey Bogomyako)

One of Russia’s biggest industrial holdings Summa Group is actively expanding in the Russian Far East, with its head claiming the projects his company is offering will let Russia increase its transit potential by a...

 
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