Moscow Times (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin on Tuesday played down worries about an economic slowdown after weak gross domestic product, capital investment and industrial production data for June.
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Inflation is weighing on the Russian economy, not the global crisis, Deputy PM and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin told journalists, commenting on some deterioration in economic growth figures in June ...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Russia signed an agreement with Iraq to write off the part of Iraqi debt, amounting $13 billion, Iraqi foreign minister Hoshiar Al Zibari said.As per the agreement signed by officials of both the countries in Moscow on Monday, Russia will write off 93 per cent or 12.9 billion dollars of Iraq's debt to Moscow, Interfax news agency reported, quoting Russian finance minister Alexei Kudrin.Russia...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... talks will be completed without me," he said, but "the tempo has slowed down."Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin earlier offered personal guarantees to secure his deputy's release. The Finance Ministry said Storchak possessed information which was crucial for ongoing debt talks with the World Bank, Libya, and other countries.In the letter, Storchak repeated his complaint that he has not...
ETF Trends (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... by value, thanks to the increasing buying power of the Russian consumer. But now Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin says the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) is growing at too fast a clip, and any stimulus measure will lead to “intolerable” inflation and bring growth to a halt. Record oil prices have kept the dollars flowing in, and the country’s rising middle class is going on...
