Businesses Get Flak for Opposition Support Novosti | Businesses in Russia that lend support to the opposition are being subjected to harassment, former finance minister Alexei Kudrin said on Friday. | “There have been numerous instances of businesses coming under pressure for supporting serious...
UPDATE 1-Urals regains premium in Surgut tender -trade The Guardian (Refiles to insert dateline) * Surgut sells Feb Primorsk cargo at 35 cent premium to dated * Russian blend last traded at premium in late December * Iran threat seen pushing up prices for Russian crude * February Russian exports likely to tighten MOS...
Putin critic barred from Russia elections Al Jazeera | Russia's central election commission has disqualified the sole liberal challenger to Vladimir Putin from the March 4 presidential ballot, in a move slammed by the opposition as undermining the legitimacy of the polls. | The commission said on ...
Russia Could See Large Investment Inflow after Elections Novosti | The head of Russia's direct investment fund set up to lure foreign investment to modernize the Russian economy, Kirill Dmitriev, said on Friday he expected substantial increased capital inflow to Russia after presidential elections this March. | "W...
The lord, the birching and the Davos failure Sydney Morning Herald | The ego-stroking gabfest of the alleged financial elite in Davos is the World Economic Forum only in name – albeit a cosy and lucrative name, given its $160 million income last year. Perhaps unwittingly, Davos this week symbolises Old World h...
Cyprus Gets Second 1.32 Bln Euro Russian Loan Tranche Novosti | Cyprus has received the second 1.32 billion euro tranche of a 2.5 billion euro loan pledged by Russia, the Cypriot Finance Ministry said on Thursday. | Cyprus Finance Minister Kikis Kazamias and Russian Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak signe...
IMF Urges Russia to Focus on Inflation Novosti | Russia should orient its monetary policy more strongly toward fighting consumer price inflation, the International Monetary Fund's Senior Resident Representative in Russia Odd Per Brekk said on Thursday. | "Russia's monetary policy needs to be anch...
Eight Strategic Factors to Consider in 2012 Pakalert Press Share | by Strategic Studies | Rarely in the past six decades has global context counted for as much in strategic forecasting — trend analysis — as it does at the dawn of 2012. Reliance on stove-piped analysis of “strategic sectors” — such as economic and financial issues, security issues, politics, geopolitics, resources and energy, s...
