Topic: Russia

Analysis: Putin invokes history's lions for return to Kremlin

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin has an answer for Russians worried that his return to the presidency next year will usher in an era of stagnation: study the careers of Franklin D. Roosevelt or Charles de Gaulle.Putin could be president until 2024 ...

Tokyo, Moscow have highest expat rents: survey

Expats living in Tokyo are paying more rent than anywhere else in the world due to the soaring yen, while those in Hong Kong would have seen theirs rise 22 percent, a survey has revealed.For the privilege of living in the Japanese ...
Further quantitative easing will be met with swift economic actions.When time permits I like to relax with a good mystery story. One of my favorite masters of the genre is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. A few days ago ...

"... at least, do no harm."

to help, or at least do no harm. Investors, without recognizing the implications of their decisions, often sway from the fundamental concept of doing their portfolio no harm.. It is for this reason, free cash flow based ROIC is a metric that ...
America may or may not have lost the peace, but in the early nineties, only Russia and her former satellites were in serious trouble. Russia lost her political power, her military might, and her economic standing. In the darkest days, what happened ...
What will the current economic crisis mean for the health of the people of Northern Ireland? On this basis, Northern Ireland may escape relatively unscathed in the short term but as every crisis also provides an opportunity, this is an appropriate time ...
Global Financial Crisis 2008 U.S Economy faces crisis,The Dow Jones index continues to fall, and the Federal Reserve and Central banks continue to lower interest rates will this help provide enough liquidity into a sinking financial system? (IMF) International Monetary Fund, released ...
Deputy Finance Minister, Dimitry Pankin, believes Russia will be " VTB is 85.5 per cent controlled by the state and Russia's second largest bank by assets. Russia plans to raise some $29bn in asset sales over the next three years in its ...
Russia's ETFs were hit hard in the financial crisis. Peter Van Dyke for MarketPlace reports that Russia's largely commodity-driven economy was hit hard by the financial crisis. Boeing (NYSE: BA) signed a $3.7 billion contract to supply 50 planes to Russia. The ...

Recession casualty Latvia holds general election

Latvians voted Saturday in a general election, as the Baltic nation emerges from the world's deepest recession but remains locked in a biting austerity drive.Opinion polls showed centre-right Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis's coalition could retain power, but that the left-wing opposition, rooted ...
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