Just Auto (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Russian government is preparing new measures to support domestic automobile producers.
Lone Star Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
The consistent bellicosity of the Russian government is never off the front pages for long and 2008 was no exception. When not invading or intimidating their former subjects, the Russian military is devising new and ingenius ways to reduce their military payroll. These strategies include decimating their submarine corps by getting them killed due to [...]
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | yesterday
Moscow, Dec 1 : Russian Communist Party at its Congress in Moscow has re-elected Gennady Zyuganov as its leader.Mr Zyuganov (64) has led the Party since 1993, when he co-founded the movement after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The congress also voted to expand the Party Central Committee to 105 members, 75 of whom are under 40.Mr Zyuganov at the Congress yesterday, pledged to restore the...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
... could not say whether the destructive program was created by an individual hacker or whether the Russian government might have had some involvement.
Inventor Spot (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Russian scientists have developed a new technology that will capture and store carbon dioxide as a solution for climate change. Researchers claim their method is the only effective way to reduce carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere, thus stabilizing Earth’s volatile climatic changes. Read on for details, but bring along both mittens and sunscreen, just in case.
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Russian government's Presidium has approved the development strategy for the Russian financial market until 2020, Vladimir Milovidov, the head of the Federal Financial Markets Service (FFMS), told...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | yesterday
about how Russian pawnshops are thriving in the hard times. In general, it seems to be a good time for moneylenders who have money. And in Russia, that means the government. Today economist and former...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | yesterday
(Moscow, December 2, 2008) - The health of a former Guantanamo detainee has declined alarmingly in a Russian detention facility, and he should be given immediate access to an independent medical exami...
Human Rights Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
(Moscow, December 2, 2008) - The health of a former Guantanamo detainee has declined alarmingly in a Russian detention facility, and he should be given immediate access to an independent medical examination and appropriate treatment, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
MOSCOW, December 1 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian government lowered oil export duty by 33% as of Monday, from $287.3 per metric ton to $192.1, to take into account the lower global oil price. Export ...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
The Russian government lowered oil export duty by 33% as of Monday, from $287.3 per metric ton to $192.1, to take into account the lower global oil price.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
MOSCOW, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Russia's largest private bank, Alfa, may also ask for government help in refinancing its foreign debt after state-controlled rival VTB was granted $950 million, Alfa's chief executive, Pyotr Aven, told Reuters on Tuesday.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
“As the Russian government continues to reform its energy delivery infrastructure, GE’s cogeneration solutions are helping project developers address their challenging technical and logistical requirements and also enhancing local energy reliability,” said Rod Christie, GE Energy region executive for Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and CIS. “The project is GE’s first greenhouse combined...
MountainRunner (Free subscription) | yesterday
... my conversations with the Broadcasting Board of Governors and others, it has been clear that the Russian government has been using bogus building citations to license fee increases to pressure Russian radio stations, the affiliates the U.S. has been using to transmit inside Russia, to drop American information products. Second, the point about the Defense Department having...
Circle of 13 (Free subscription) | yesterday
... could not say whether the destructive program was created by an individual hacker or whether the Russian government may have had some involvement. Defense experts may never be able to answer such questions, officials said.The defense official said the military also had not learned whether the software's designers may have been specifically targeting computers used by troops in Afghanistan...
