Category: Russia
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
How Russia Avoided Civil War 17 Years Ago / Politics / Russia
By: Pravda
On October 3 and 4 Russia remembered the tragic events of the fall of 1993. Mourning rallies and marches in many cities of Russia commemorated the perished defenders of the Supreme Council. In the capital alone, the ceremonies were attended by nearly a thousand people. Was there an alternative to the armed confrontation between the supporters of Boris Yeltsin and the defenders of the legitimately elected Parliament? Was it possible to avoid the tragic outcome? Ruslan Khasbulatov, the chairman of the Supreme Council, discussed it in an interview with Pravda.ru.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Russia to Spend Trillions on New Arms Race / Politics / Russia
By: Pravda
In the next ten years, Russia will spend up to 22.5 trillion rubles on armaments. It was planned that the state program will not exceed 13 trillion rubles. However, the Defense Ministry considered that these funds are insufficient. The new program is designed to bring the share of new technology, adopted in the RF, to 70-80%. Now the number is approximately 10%.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Time to Invest in Russia? / Stock-Markets / Russia
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
Of all the unpleasant societies in which to live, Vladimir Putin's Russia is among the nastiest. Journalists and businessmen disappear, a knock on the door at 3:00am can prove fatal, and nothing gets done without endless side-payments to obscure fixers.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Russia One of the World's Worst Places to Live, Has A Lot To Accomplish? / Politics / Russia
By: Pravda
Switzerland and Sweden took second and third positions, respectively, followed by Australia, Luxembourg, Norway, Canada, Holland, Japan and Denmark. U.S. took only 11th place in the overall rankings. The bottom of the list is occupied by Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Cameroon, Zambia and Uganda.
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Sunday, August 15, 2010
Russian Forest Fires Cause $15 Billion of Damage to Economy / Economics / Russia
By: Pravda
Experts started to calculate the losses, which the Russian economy suffered as a result of unusually hot summer and immense forest fires. The damage may total one percent of the GDP growth in 2010, which is equal to $15 billion, or 450 billion rubles. For the time being, the experts take account of direct costs and negative short-term consequences for the economy.
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Saturday, August 07, 2010
IMF Predicts 4.25% Growth for Russian Economy in 2010 / Economics / Russia
By: Pravda
In 2010, the Russian economy will grow by 4.25%, after falling 7.9% last year. This forecast was made yesterday by the International Monetary Fund.
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Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Wildfires and Russian Bureaucracy a Perfect Combination / Politics / Russia
By: Pravda
In July of this year, Moscow has set over 10 temperature records for 130 years of local weather monitoring. Of course, abnormally high temperatures were observed not only in the capital, but nearly on the entire territory of Central Russia, Siberia and the Urals.
It would be very strange if such weather would not bring forest and peat fires.
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Putin Watches Russia Burn / Politics / Russia
By: Pravda
The overwhelming heat that has been raging Russia for 1.5 months and triggered forest fires in Russia's central and southern territories has become a matter of state importance. President Dmitry Medvedev held telephone conversations with governmental and regional officials and ordered to take additional emergency measures to liquidate the fires.
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Friday, July 16, 2010
Most Russians Spend All Earnings on Current Consumption / Economics / Russia
By: Pravda
Fifty percent of Russians have to spend all their money on current consumption without saving anything. A quarter of the Russian nationals have savings, but only 8 percent of them can live on that money for over one year. However, people's savings on bank deposits have been growing steadily. It increased by 26.7 percent in 2009 and exceeded 8 trillion rubles in May 2010.
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Russian Perspective on the Kyrgyzstan Crisis / Politics / Russia
By: Pravda
The UN Security Council is currently looking into the situation in Kyrgyzstan too. The UN promised to guarantee the delivery of food and medical help to Kyrgyz nationals through specially formed humanitarian corridors.
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Monday, June 14, 2010
Putin Attacks Western Models of Democracy / Politics / Russia
By: Pravda
Vladimir Putin gave a traditional interview to French journalists prior to his visit to Paris. In the interview, the chairman of the Russian government said that the Western model of democracy does not exist per se. Below you can read several most intersecting excerpts from Putin’s interview.
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Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Investing in Russia, Doug Casey on the Russian Bear BRIC / Stock-Markets / Russia
By: Casey_Research
(Interviewed by Louis James, Conversation with Casey)
L: Doug, I'm in Belarus this week, a pit stop to help some of my students with their various business ideas. I'm struggling with my Russian, but getting along. And that has me thinking about Russia's role on the global economic stage. I know this is something you've given some thought to... What do you think? Is Putin out to take over the world? What do investors need to keep in mind?
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Russian Economy From Recession to Recovery / Economics / Russia
By: Pravda
In his annual report to the Russian Parliament on the Government’s handling of the economy, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin declared on Tuesday that the recession is over, that healthcare reforms are on the way, promising to restructure the financial management of the financial sector, while stating that optimism is fuelled by the provisional forecasts after Q1 of 2010.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Russia’s Economic Recovery Priorities Focus on Modernization and Innovation / Economics / Russia
By: Pravda
Russia’s Finance Minister Aleksei Kudrin delivered his traditional annual speech at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow last week, in which he highlighted his vision of the pressing needs for Russia’s economy. We make a synthesis of these and add the opinion of another economic expert.
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
No More False Flags From the Russia's FSB, Time to Set the Chechen's Free / Politics / Russia
By: LewRockwell
Eric Margolis writes: There is an old saying about the fierce Chechen tribes who inhabit southern Russia’s Caucasus mountains: "Chechen cannot ever be defeated. They can only be killed."
Chechen are Russia’s nemesis. Even the notoriously brutal Russian mafia fears the ferocious Chechen, and for good reason.
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Chechnya Oil Pipeline Politics True Underlying Cause for Moscow Metro Bombings / Politics / Russia
By: OilPrice_Com
The tragic news of the 29 March twin suicide bombings of two Moscow Metro stations during the morning rush hour has produced outrage worldwide, with the Kremlin quickly adding that the attacks were carried out by the Caucasus Mujaheddin, a northern Caucasus-based militant Islamist guerrilla group that claimed responsibility for the bombing of a Moscow to St. Petersburg express train last November.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Russian Economy Growing Stronger than Expected / Economics / Russia
By: Pravda
The growth of the GDP of the Russian Federation will reach the level of 4-4.5 percent in 2010 and may further increase to 6 percent. Putin said in December of 2009 that the nation’s GDP would grow by approximately three percent in 2010. The bailout measures taken by the Russian government produced a positive effect, the prime minister added.
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Russian Economy Outstrips BRIC Peers / Economics / Russia
By: Pravda
With the price of oil now up to 80 USD per barrel (after hitting 40 USD in early 2009) and a continued strengthening of the currency set to last, Russian funds received 411 million dollars in foreign investment in the week ending March 11, the highest level in six months, nearly half of this going into Exchange-Traded Funds tracking Russian indexes, a clear sign of the confidence in the emerging markets in Russia.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Vladimir Lisin, Russia's New Richest Man / Politics / Russia
By: Pravda
Finance magazine published the annual list of Russian billionaires. The list includes the names of 500 individuals, whose fortune is evaluated at not less than 3.3 billion rubles. There are 77 dollar billionaires in Russia today, which marked a considerable increase in comparison with the beginning of 2009, when the economic crisis caused financial damage to many Russian billionaires.
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Thursday, February 04, 2010
Army of Unemployed Russians Grows Steadily / Economics / Russia
By: Pravda
About 500,000 Russian citizens may lose their jobs in the nearest future, Vice Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov believes. The number of Russians on an enforced leave will not diminish either, he said.
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