Russian court announces trial of opposition leader Alexey Navalny
Wednesday, 03 April 2013 16:58

Anti-Putin campaigner to be tried on 17 April as tensions mount across Moscow in the wake of last year's protests

A provincial Russian court has announced it will launch the trial of Alexey Navalny on 17 April, in a case widely believed to be targeted at silencing the popular opposition leader.

The case against Navalny, one of the loudest critics of...

 
How could Russia react to USA's aggression against Yugoslavia?
Monday, 01 April 2013 15:15
"We should have considered the issue of the American aggression against Yugoslavia in the Security Council, and to should have created a court together with other countries. Clark and Albright should have been held criminally responsible," said Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov in an interview with Inna Novikova, chief editor of Pravda.Ru...
 
BRICS dumping euro amid simmering EU banking crisis
Monday, 01 April 2013 10:35
Published time: April 01, 2013 08:35
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Brussels has been forced to eat a generous slice of humble pie: A massive sell-off of the euro is underway in the wake of a persistent financial crisis, as holdings in the European currency by emerging economies were slashed by...

 
Congratulations to Alexander Mitta on his 80th birthday
Sunday, 31 March 2013 12:34
Alexander Naumovich Mitta celebrated his 80th birthday on the 28th of March 2013. The Russian cartoonist, screenwriter and film director was born in Moscow, in 1933. He first studied engineering, graduating in 1955, then worked as a cartoonist in art and humorous magazines, for example the satirical journal "Crocodile."...
 
Poison claim in mysterious Surrey death of Russian supergrass
Saturday, 30 March 2013 21:00

Alexander Perepilichnyy's friends question three-week delay in toxicology tests and say he may have been poisoned in Paris

A Russian supergrass who died in mysterious circumstances outside his Surrey home may have been poisoned in Paris before travelling to England, his associates have claimed.

Alexander Perepilichnyy, a wealthy businessman who...

 
American shale gas project is a bubble about to burst – Gazprom CEO
Saturday, 30 March 2013 17:57
Published time: March 30, 2013 16:57
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The extraction of shale gas in the US is unprofitable and this “soap bubble will burst soon,” believes the CEO of Russian gas giant Gazprom Aleksey Miller.

Currently, there aren’t any projects that we know of where shale gas p...

 
Cyprus bailout threatens Germany's 'special relationship' with Russia
Friday, 29 March 2013 18:33

Concerns mount in Berlin that it will take brunt of Kremlin's anger over losses incurred by Russian investors as part of EU deal

Kremlin anger over its losses in the Cyprus bailout could put the nail in the coffin of the "special relationship" shared by Germany and Russia, German businessmen and advisers increasingly fear.

"Of course there are...

 
Cyprus: investors were withdrawing money before crisis hit, figures show
Thursday, 28 March 2013 20:24

Bank figures reveal deposits were being run down in February – well before first proposals for a bailout were made public

Investors were removing money from banks in Cyprus long before the onset of the two-week financial crisis that forced the small eurozone country to impose controls on capital flight.

Data from both the European Central Bank and...

 
Cyprus rescue fuels a growing rift that endangers EU integration | Harold James
Thursday, 28 March 2013 17:14

Cyprus may have been saved, but monetary union is impossible to sustain in the absence of a political union across Europe

Europe can choose its own musical accompaniment to its latest crisis. In Berlin, 50 Cent's film All Things Fall Apart has just had its premiere, so that soundtrack might be appropriate. Or the continent can reach back to...

 
Brics eye infrastructure funding through new development bank
Thursday, 28 March 2013 11:52

Gang of five hail 'new paradigm', but questions about funding and location of headquarters remain unresolved

Five giants of the developing world have in principle agreed to create a development bank to provide initial funding for infrastructure projects worth $4.5tn (£3tn), in a potentially historic challenge to western-dominated financial ...

 
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