Time for Debt thinking’s over Coffee on a wonderful Thursday in Russia… It is a thinking time while sipping that wonderful cup of coffee or chicory in my case… CNBC on 20 Sept 2011 had a report about “The World’s Biggest Debtor Nations!” This was not so very long ago and I found this interesting and [...]
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December 16, 2011
Time for Debt thinking’s over Coffee on a wonderful Thursday in Russia…
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December 16, 2011
Page 2 acquires list of Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov’s Russian presidency campaign promises
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Sasha Mordovets / Getty ImagesMikhail Prokhorov has some big ideas on tap for his campaign for the Russian presidency. Russian billionaire and New Jersey/Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov recently announced he’ll be running for president of Russia against Vladimir Putin next year. Our inside sources at the Kremlin have helped us gather a preliminary list [...]
December 12, 2011
Wouldn’t it be cool to buy a monastery in Russia…
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Wouldn’t it be cool to buy a monastery in Russia… A 17th century monastery has gone on sale in Central Russia for a price lower than that of a typical one-room flat in Moscow. The monastery is equivalent to 585 square meters and would cost anyone interested about 1.7 million rubles (about $50,000). The monastery [...]
December 8, 2011
Georgia becomes NATO aspirant state – deputy PM
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Georgia was named a NATO aspirant country for the first time on Thursday, the country’s deputy premier said. Georgia, which has been proactively seeking NATO membership since a coup in 2003, was included on the list during a two-day meeting of NATO foreign ministers that opened on Wednesday in Brussels “Georgia was for the first [...]
December 2, 2011
Medvedev Appeals To Voters Ahead Of Elections
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President Dmitry Medvedev, in a televised address to the nation, has urged voters to make the “right choice” in Russia’s parliamentary elections on December 5. Medvedev, who is heading the party list for the ruling United Russia party, said in his speech on December 2 that the country needed “an efficient legislative body of responsible [...]
December 1, 2011
Russia ranks 143 in Transparency International 2011 corruption index
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Despite Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s efforts to fight corruption, its level in Russia remains extremely high, with the country ranking 143rd out of 182 countries in Transparency International’s 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index published on Thursday. Russia’s ranking indicates an improvement on its 154th place in the Berlin-based anti-corruption watchdog’s 2010 list. But despite this, the [...]
December 1, 2011
Survey Finds Corruption Becoming Increasingly Entrenched
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Whether in the form of kickbacks, bribery of public officials, embezzlement, or tax evasion, political and public sector corruption has become increasingly entrenched in the past year, and has fueled an angry backlash, according to Transparency International. Based on surveys of business leaders and risk analysts, the index by the anticorruption watchdog tracks perceived levels [...]
November 26, 2011
Portsmouth F.C.’s Russian owner may appear in London court
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Russian billionaire Vladimir Antonov, the owner of England’s Portsmouth football club, may appear before a London court on Friday after being detained at the request of Lithuania on financial crime charges. Antonov and his Lithuanian business partner Raimondas Baranauskas are both former shareholders in the nationalized Lithuanian bank Snoras, which was seized by authorities in [...]
November 23, 2011
Court Rules on Monuments
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Court Rules on Monuments By Nadezhda Zaitseva Vedomosti Published: November 23, 2011 (Issue # 1684) ALEXANDER BELENKY / SPT The Preobrazhensky Barracks were torn down after being illegally removed from the list of culture and heritage sites. The St. Petersburg city court confirmed a statement from the city’s public prosecutor’s office annulling the Committee for [...]
November 17, 2011
Hollywood holy Moscow party
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Hollywood celebs, loud music and liquor are probably not what one might associate with Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral. But an art center in this place of worship has hosted an A-list soiree with the likes of Clive Owen, Anastasia and Megan Fox. The occasion? A presentation of the new Vertu smartphone. Arriving at the [...]
November 17, 2011
U.S. urges Russia to bring those responsible for Magnitsky death to trial
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The U.S. Department of State called on the Russian authorities to bring to justice those responsible for the pretrial death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. Magnitsky was arrested and jailed without trial in November 2008, and died in police custody a year later after being denied medical care. The 37-year-old lawyer accused tax and police officials [...]
November 12, 2011
Police kill militant in Chechnya
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Police have killed a suspected militant in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, a police official said on Saturday. The suspect was named as Rukman Ediyev, who was on the federal wanted list for organizing an illegal armed group. The official did not say when the operation, which took place in Chechnya’s Shalinsky district, was [...]
November 9, 2011
No entry to European skies for six Russian air carriers
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The Federal Russian Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) has restricted Europe-bound flights operated by six of the country’s air carriers. “The restrictions have been introduced to prevent Russian companies from obtaining a negative status and avoid getting on the black list since their airplanes, notably the Boeing 757-200, don’t match the European standards,” said the Head [...]
November 8, 2011
Merkel, Medvedev To Inaugurate Natural Gas Pipeline
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The leaders of Germany and Russia are planning to inaugurate the Nord Stream pipeline, a strategic pipeline laid beneath the Baltic Sea to carry Russian natural gas to Western Europe. Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Dmitry Medvedev top a guest list that also includes the prime ministers of France and the Netherlands, Francois Fillon and [...]