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Monday, 14 November 2011 13:19 |
World Trade Organization (WTO) headquarters in Geneva. (AFP Photo / Fabrice Coffrini) A new free trade agreement between most of the former Soviet republics will help Ukraine liberalize its trade with Russia and boost progress in talks on striking a similar agreement with the EU. A deal signed by 8 former Soviet republics last month has been just ... |
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Monday, 14 November 2011 06:15 |
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Relief as takeoff of capsule carrying American and two Russians follows loss of Progress cargo ship and Mars probe A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying an American and two Russians has blasted off successfully from Kazakhstan on a mission to the International Space Station. It is the first flight of a Nasa astronaut in the post-space shuttle era and is... |
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Saturday, 12 November 2011 14:00 |
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A decade of prosperity has left many Poles abandoning national psyche of victimhood and turning liabilities into assets There's an old joke about a Polish optimist meeting a Polish pessimist: "Things are so bad, so terribly bad, that they couldn't possibly get any worse", says the pessimist, to which the optimist replies: "Don't worry my friend,... |
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Saturday, 12 November 2011 12:42 |
The economic shock from the fall of Europe’s economies “could be much larger than from the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008,” warns Nouriel Roubini, the Dr. Doom of the global economy, who predicted the world recession three years ago. |
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Saturday, 12 November 2011 01:34 |
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Russian prime minister admits power is too centralised and few people trust his system of government Russia's prime minister, Vladimir Putin, admitted that his government had lost of the trust of its people and pledged to introduce what he called "direct democracy" to refresh it, when he is returned for a third presidential term next March. Challeng... |
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Friday, 11 November 2011 17:10 |
RIA Novosti / Ruslan Krivobok A Russian court in the Siberian city of Tyumen has rejected two lawsuits against British oil company BP and its representatives in BP’s joint Russian venture TNK-BP.
A minority shareholder of TNK-BP was claiming $15 billion for lost profits because they were excluded from an agreement between BP and Russian oil firm...
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Friday, 11 November 2011 14:22 |
RIA Novosti / Ruslan Krivobok Russian flag carrier Aeroflot is reporting gross revenue of 99.14 billion roubles for the past 9 months, up from 82.72 billion roubles for the same period last year. .
The airline puts it down to increased passenger numbers and sales of ancilliary services.Traditionally viewed as an international airline Aeroflot has... |
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Friday, 11 November 2011 14:11 |
Dmitry Medvedev says Russia is much better prepared for the 2nd wave of the crisis than Europe Good economic numbers has prompted President Medvedev to suggest Russia is in a much better prepared for a second wave of crisis than Europe. He's trumpeting Russia's fairly rapid GDP growth, 'this year it will reach between 4 – 4.5%, while in Europe and t... |
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Friday, 11 November 2011 14:00 |
RIA Novosti / Konstantin Chalabov It's a great time for savers in Russia, as more than half the country's biggest retail banks have increased their rate on rouble deposits in an effort to attract cash.
State-owned Sberbank began by bumping depositing rates 1.5% to 7.25%. Other players have been forced to follow to remain competitive. Bank of... |
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Friday, 11 November 2011 13:23 |
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The administration of Tajikistan, is not going to revise the indictment against Estonian national Aleksei Rudenko and Russian national Vladimir Sadovnichy. The two men will thus have to spend 8.5 years behind bars. The judgment was delivered three days ago, but Russia has not taken a move to do something about the problem... |
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