The Kumtor mine. With 100 sizable gold fields mapped but never tapped, Kyrgyzstan is ripe for a mining boom. 1 of 2 BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — The bus loaded with supporters of a planned $100 million mine had just left its remote Kyrgyz village when a mob on horseback blocked the road. What happened next was a warning to foreign mining companies who [...]
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June 29, 2011
June 17, 2011
France, Germany to push Syria resolution at UNSC
France and Germany will go ahead with a Syria resolution at the UN Security Council, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday. “We – France and Germany – want a resolution to be adopted on Mr. [President Bashar] Assad’s actions against the Syrian people,” Merkel said at a news conference with French President Nicolas Sarkozy [...]
June 16, 2011
Emirates Airline to Open Dubai-Petersburg Service
Emirates Airline to Open Dubai-Petersburg Service By Irina Titova The St. Petersburg Times Published: June 17, 2011 (Issue # 1661) St. Petersburg expects to receive more tourists from Asia, Middle East and Africa when Emirates Airline begins daily flights from St. Petersburg to Dubai on November 1. The all-year-round flights by one of the world’s [...]
June 14, 2011
France ‘three votes short’ of putting Syria resolution to UNSC vote
France will put a Syria resolution to a vote at the UN Security Council after it enlists the support of India, South Africa and Brazil, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Tuesday. “As of now we have nine votes. We need to convince South Africa, India and Brazil,” he told the National Assembly of [...]
June 4, 2011
Lavrov Sees New IMF Deputy Position for BRIC
Emerging market nations are gaining the support of world leaders for a bid to nominate a deputy to the next head of the International Monetary Fund, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. A consensus has almost been reached on selecting the new IMF chief, President Dmitry Medvedev said at the Group of Eight summit on May 27. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the same day that French Finance Minister [...]
June 4, 2011
Margelov Prepares to Visit Libya
Russia wants to mediate between the two sides in Libya’s civil war as it tries to negotiate the exit from power of Colonel Moammar Gadhafi, said Mikhail Margelov, the country’s envoy in the Libyan crisis. Margelov said he would travel to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi “in the nearest time” to meet with the rebel leadership. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is in contact with Tripoli, held by Gadhafi’s forces, Margelov said [...]
May 30, 2011
Odnoklassniki.ru social network to launch targeted advertising
Russian social networking site Odnoklassniki.ru is launching a system of targeted advertisements, a source at Mail.ru, the owner of Russia’s second largest social network, said on Monday. Odnoklassniki has a potential audience of 40 million people. Liveinternet.ru statistics service says about 20 million people visit Odnoklassniki daily. Russia’s top social network, Vkontakte.ru abandoned media advertising [...]
May 26, 2011
Russia Signs OECD Anti-Bribery Convention
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaking at the OECD headquarters in Paris on its 50th anniversary. Russia took a major step forward in its three-year effort to join the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD, on Wednesday when it signed onto the Western-dominated forum’s anti-bribery convention at a ceremony in Paris on Wednesday. Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina looked on as First Deputy Minister [...]
May 25, 2011
French finance minister to apply for top IMF job
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday she would apply for the position of managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). “I decided to put forward my candidacy to the post of the IMF head. I made this decision after careful deliberations and required consultations with the president and the prime minister who [...]
May 25, 2011
No Country for Bodyguards
No Country for Bodyguards Barbaresco // 2 Konyushennaya Ploshchad // Tel: 647 8282 // Open 8 a.m. to 2 a.m weekdays, 10 a.m. to 6 a.m. weekends // Menu in Russian and English // Dinner for two 4,165 ($147) By Sam Marriott The St. Petersburg Times Published: May 25, 2011 (Issue # 1657) Barbaresco is [...]
May 19, 2011
EU countries start talks to propose new IMF chief
EU states have started talks to agree on a candidate to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn as the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a European Commission spokesman said on Thursday. Strauss-Kahn, 62, announced his resignation earlier on Thursday following charges that he sexually assaulted a hotel maid in New York, the IMF said on its [...]
May 18, 2011
Kadyrov Makes Name for Himself in Horse Racing
Gitano Hernando being ridden during practice for the Dubai World Cup in the United Arab Emirates in March. 1 of 2 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Repeatedly accused of human rights abuses, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov is drawing protests in the sports world as he becomes an increasingly avid thoroughbred owner. The bearded, 34-year-old leader is not just running horses [...]
May 18, 2011
Belarus ‘Accepts’ $3Bln Loan
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said Tuesday that Belarus appeared to have accepted the terms of a $3 billion loan offered by a Russia-led group of former Soviet republics to save the teetering Belarussian economy from a disastrous collapse. He was reacting to news reports that quoted Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko as saying, after a telephone conversation with President Dmitry Medvedev, that the loan was a done deal. [...]
May 6, 2011
EU Ecology Will Halve Oil Imports
The European Union will seek to halve its overall fossil fuel imports by 2050 under a new strategy presented in Moscow on Tuesday. The Road Map to a Carbon Neutral Economy by 2050 sets out a strategy for the EU to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to a mere 20 percent of 1990 levels over the next four decades. The strategy envisages annual investments of 270 billion euros ($400 billion) — about 1.5 [...]