Sat. October 11, 2008
Russian Federation:
Aljazeera.net
October 11, 2008
But the reality is
Russians just keep on spending.
Moscow streets are clogged with expensive foreign cars, its mega malls over-flowing with shoppers ...
But the Russian government has no illusions about who is to blame. Commenting on the present crisis, Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, said: "Trust ...
Back then a decline in world commodity prices hit Russia's oil dependent economy hard. Moscow was also engaged in the first Chechen war, straining Kremlin ...
USA Today
October 10, 2008
Yet, since the
Russian invasion of Georgia on Aug. 8,
Russia no longer looks like it's "on top of the world," Hanson says. Foreign investors, spooked by ...
Now, Russians are watching in disbelief as their country has been one of the hardest-hit by the global economic crisis. Credit is drying up, ...
Moscow News
October 10, 2008
Russian
stock markets plunged record levels this week, causing trading to be suspended on Wednesday. The drop of almost 20 percent on both the MICEX and RTS ...
Many Russian companies need liquidity as they are estimated to have over $45 billion (118 billion rubles) in debts that need to be repaid by the end of the ...
CorpWatch.org
October 10, 2008
Norilsk Nickel has become the largest metals corporation in
Russia and one of the largest worldwide for the mining and processing of metals. The company ...
But it is possible to meet plant Directors in Krasnoyarsk, a town some 1200 miles south of the closed city. During the dreary winter months several of them ...
Reuters
October 11, 2008
MURMANSK,
Russia (Reuters) -
Russia carried out the first test launch on Saturday of a strategic missile that reached the equator in the
Pacific Ocean, ...
Deutsche Welle
October 11, 2008
In the lead-up to Saturday's clash against Guus Hiddink's Russia, the Baden-Wuerttemberger has had to deal with a conflict between team manager Oliver ...
Forbes
October 11, 2008
The government already owns stakes in
Russia's largest listed
companies, such as
Gazprom (other-otc: OGZPY - news - people ) and Rosneft, and could kick ...
Bloomberg
October 10, 2008
By Denis Maternovsky and Torrey Clark Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) --
Russia's
market regulator delayed the opening of trading today on the Micex and RTS stock ...
Reuters
October 10, 2008
The Federal
financial markets Service of
Russia on Friday ordered the MICEX and RTS exchanges to suspend trading until further notice, amid a continued rout ...
MarketWatch
October 10, 2008
Russia's dollar-denominated RTS stock index has plunged 63% this year, making it the worst performer among major global emerging
markets. ...
Moscow News
October 10, 2008
Bishkek (RIA Novosti) - Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that
Russia was shocked that the UN and
NATO had secretly signed a cooperation ...
Bloomberg
October 10, 2008
By Alex Nicholson Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) --
Russia's government will start buying stocks of domestic
companies next week to help support prices, ...
Xinhua
October 10, 2008
Moscow, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- Defending champion Elena Dementieva secured a hard-fought win over Nadia Petrova on Friday to advance to the semifinals of the ...
New York Times
October 10, 2008
Russia, however, might not have the monopoly on space tourism for long. Another company, Virgin Galactic, plans to begin taking clients to the cusp of space ...
Forbes
October 10, 2008
guardian.co.uk
October 10, 2008
Forbes
October 10, 2008
BusinessWeek
October 10, 2008
Russia's
stock markets remained closed after heavy selloffs.
Putin said the government will invest 175 billion rubles ($6.7 billion) in the stock
markets ...
Reuters
October 10, 2008
By Phil Stewart ROME, Oct 10 (Reuters) - European dependence on Russian gas is dangerous partly because of future supply shortfalls, not because Russia may ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
October 10, 2008
Bloomberg
October 10, 2008
By Darren Boey Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) --
Indonesia halted stock-
market trading for a second full day, while exchanges in
Russia and
Ukraine were suspended ...
Bloomberg
October 10, 2008
By Helena Bedwell and Lyubov Pronina Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) --
Russia has failed to meet all its obligations under a
European Union-brokered cease-fire that ...
Moscow News
October 10, 2008
Russia received a similar official request late on Tuesday and the country's Finance Minister
Alexei Kudrin was quoted by Interfax as saying: "We will ...
Houston Chronicle
October 10, 2008
That failure became indisputable in August, he continued, when
the United States was powerless to prevent Georgia attacking
Russian forces and
Russia ...
International Herald Tribune
October 10, 2008
The short war in August between
Russia and Georgia has prompted urgent calls, particularly from Washington, for
Ukraine and Georgia to be offered a
NATO ...
U.S. News & World Report
October 10, 2008
By Alastair Gee On Thursday, authorities cautiously reopened trading on Russia's main exchange, the Micex, where action was halted yet again Wednesday after ...
Moscow News
October 10, 2008
Moscow News
October 10, 2008
The attack prompted increased security measures for both Ossetian
law enforcers and
Russian contingent in the region but also caused doubts that
Russia ...
Kommersant
October 9, 2008
WBA heavyweight champ Nikolay Valuev of Russia will fight Evander Holyfield. Valuev's team proposed the bout, the web of ESPN TV reported with reference to ...
Lake Placid News
October 9, 2008
"
Russia's own block, the
Shanghai Cooperation
organization, condemned
Russia's move into Georgia as strongly as
the US and Western allies did. ...
Reuters
October 9, 2008
The Australian
October 9, 2008
Russia's war against Georgia in August deepened the rift, exposing differences between the erstwhile allies when it came to dealing with the
Kremlin. ...
Bloomberg
October 9, 2008
Voice of America
October 9, 2008
By Andre de Nesnera
Russia has praised recent parliamentary elections in
Belarus while international observers criticized the balloting. ...
Reuters India
October 9, 2008
By Guy Faulconbridge
Moscow (Reuters) -
Russia denied on Thursday it would sell air defence systems to "troubled regions" after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud ...
Xinhua
October 9, 2008
Moscow, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) --
Russia officially notified the
European Union (EU) that it had completed the withdrawal of its peacekeepers from buffer zones ...
Reuters
October 9, 2008
Moscow, Oct 9 (Reuters) - The
financial crisis will cut the number of banks in
Russia's banking sector and could shave two percentage points off economic ...
Reuters
October 9, 2008
Gennady Zyuganov, the leader of
Russia's Communist Party, asked
Putin to sack Kudrin over the
financial crisis which has rocked investor confidence in ...
Cbonds. Info
October 9, 2008
Credit is increasingly tight, economic growth is slowing, and
Russia's fragile
financial markets have taken a beating. On Oct. 6 the benchmark RTS index ...
Reuters
October 9, 2008
Enel has already invested 3.1 billion euros ($4.25 billion) in Russia and would pour in another 2.2 billion euros by 2012. Enel shares were down 2.37 ...
Bloomberg
October 9, 2008
Forbes
October 9, 2008
Moscow, Oct 9 (Reuters) -
Russia's MICEX stock exchange said it will re-open at 1340 local time (0940 GMT) on Thursday after suspending share trading twice ...
