|
Friday, 25 November 2011 05:27 |
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers a keynote address during the Facebook f8 conference. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP) Facebook has been getting closer to its users all over the world by owning domain extensions of various countries: facebook.fr, facebook.vn, facebook.ca etc. But getting .ru to its name may prove to be a challenge. A Russian... |
|
Friday, 25 November 2011 05:27 |
US mortgage gurus say Russia can learn from the US mortgage crisis to avoid a repetition of the debacle on its soil. Ginnie Mae president, Theodore Tozer, believes Russia should be able to create an efficient mortgage system that can attract foreign capital. However, he says the country needs to make sure a credit bubble doesn’t build up and that t... |
|
Thursday, 24 November 2011 08:43 |
|
Russia will pull out from the START Treaty and refuse from the steps in the field of disarmament, if the USA continues to build the air defense system in Europe, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stated in a televised address to the nation Wednesday. Russia is going to deploy Iskander missile complexes in the west and in the south of the country... |
|
Wednesday, 23 November 2011 09:16 |
|
In Tajikistan, a decision has been made on the appeal regarding the sentence for two Russian pilots accused of smuggling. The story has been ongoing for several months. The pilots were put in jail, charged with illegal border crossing, violating international flight rules and smuggling. The charges were more than strange... |
|
Tuesday, 22 November 2011 12:14 |
|
US citizens Michael and Nanette Craver have been charged with the murder of seven-year-old Russian boy Ivan Skorobogatov. The US couple was put on Interpol's wanted list. Russia's Ombudsman for Children's Rights Pavel Astakhov addressed US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in connection with the mild sentence against the Cravers... |
|
Monday, 21 November 2011 11:16 |
|
The time period when the lost Phobos-Ground interplanetary space station could be sent to Mars ends on Monday, November 21. There will be no sense in the attempts to establish connection with the spacecraft afterwards. The fragments of the station may fall down in the beginning of December on the territories of many countries of the world... |
|
Friday, 18 November 2011 17:37 |
RIA Novosti / Aleksey Kudenko Net capital outflow from Russia in 2011 is almost twice the amount of the previous year. $64bln of private investment left Russia in the first 10 months of 2011.
The tendency is likely to continue till the middle of 2012 at least. Bank of Russia Chairman Sergei Ignatiev says the bank may discuss possible measures to...
|
|
Friday, 18 November 2011 16:57 |
After nearly two decades of big plans and little action, the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) looks like it may finally become reality, with member countries hoping the union will help to create a market able to resist the financial crisis.
The Presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus signed a Declaration of Intent in Moscow on Friday...
|
|
Friday, 18 November 2011 16:54 |
It's been a gold rush for Central Banks worldwide who've bought up to 350 tons of the stuff in the third quarter of 2011 - a 40 year record. They are expected to buy 100 more tons by the end of the year, which is a major step up from the average 400 tons of gold sold over the past 15 years. A World Gold Council report indicates gold demand is up... |
|
Friday, 18 November 2011 15:27 |
AFP Photo / Stephane Danna If the novel 'Shopaholic' were to be written in 2011, it's location would not be London, but Moscow. Sales for major European retailers have slumped, but shoppers from so-called developing countries are growing in double digits. Italy's Benetton saw its third-quarter net profit down 33% due to shrinking revenue and... |
|
|
<< Start < Prev 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next > End >>
|
|
Page 16 of 50 |
