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Tuesday, 23 October 2012 12:15 |
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Russia marks the tenth anniversary of the hostage crisis at the Moscow music theater. On October 23, 2002 an armed group of terrorists broke into the building of the theater where a popular musical "Nord-Ost" was being performed. The group with Movsar Barayev at the head took 916 people hostage. The building was stormed in nearly three days... |
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Monday, 22 October 2012 18:24 |
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Russia's Central Bank has been demonstrating significant moves in its financial policy. In early October, the Central Bank supported the Russian financial system with unprecedented amount of liquidity. There is an opportunity for the Central Bank to purchase mortgage securities, as well as the infrastructure bonds. What will happen to the ruble?... |
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Friday, 19 October 2012 15:17 |
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Russia has written off the debt of over $20 billion to several African countries. The move seems to be strange and inappropriate under the conditions of the economic crisis. But the Russian authorities think strategically. Why did Russia do that? Why does Russia need Africa? This write-off is not the first one. In 2008, Moscow wrote off $16... |
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Thursday, 18 October 2012 15:32 |
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NATO will hold military exercises to train joint actions of the members of the Alliance under conditions of a cyberwar. An "African country" will act as a conditional aggressor. In fact, it is Russia that will play the role of the cyber aggressor. Not to disappoint the United States and, Russia began to develop cyber weapons too... |
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Monday, 15 October 2012 13:32 |
A screen displays photos of the winners of the Nobel prize in Economic Sciences US Alvin Roth (L) and Lloyd Shapley on October 15, 2012 in Stockholm (AFP Photo / Scanpix / Henrik Montgomery) Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for “the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design.” The... |
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Monday, 15 October 2012 12:05 |
RIA Novosti / Pavel Lysizin Russia’s second largest steelmaker Evraz has stopped steel production at its Czech subsidiary as the crisis has eaten into European demand. Russian production may start to suffer soon, analysts warn. Operations at Evraz Vitkovice Steel, the only producer of steel sheets in the Czech Republic and one of the biggest in... |
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Monday, 15 October 2012 10:59 |
Reuters / Giampiero Sposito Italian oil major ENI is considering revising the so-called ‘take or pay’ rule in its contracts with Russian gas giant Gazprom, three years after it managed to get a discount on gas supply. ENI might “not renew ‘take or pay’ contracts and try to rework the ones that are still in force,” to avoid the ‘take or pay’ rule as ... |
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Monday, 15 October 2012 07:24 |
(AFP Photo / Dmitry Kostyukov) Russian equities are expected to react sharply to forthcoming Chinese economic data, and investors are also eying an EU summit that will take place later this week. Russian markets closed lower Friday with resource shares among the biggest losers. The MICEX fell 1.2% and the RTS shed 2.4%.
European stocks fell Friday... |
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Sunday, 14 October 2012 19:25 |
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Russian Belcanto is renowned in the world, Russian voices, Russian singers being one of Russia's most prominent "export goods" in the domain of culture. One such marvellous voice belongs to Dmitri Hvorostovsky, who celebrates his 50th birthday on the 16th of October 2012. He was born during Soviet times in Krasnoyarsk, on 16th October 1962.... |
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Sunday, 14 October 2012 18:27 |
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Watchdog claims video evidence shows government forces dropped Soviet-era cluster bombs in bid to halt rebel advances Syrian government forces have used Russian-made cluster bombs on populated areas in their effort to push back rebel advances along the country's main north-south highway, according to Human Rights Watch. The watchdog on Sunday... |
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