Russia continues to play hardball with neighboring Ukraine, once again fueling European uncertainty about winter natural gas supplies. 80% of Russian natural gas exports to Europe flow through Ukraine. The Ukraine is struggling to find enough money in order to make monthly gas payments to Russia and Russia isn't offering much support. Bloomberg: The Russian government warned of an interruption of...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday sought to strengthen Russia's role as a top energy supplier to Europe by asking Austria to join the South Stream natural gas pipeline project.
Iran urged Russia on Wednesday to deliver on an air-defense contract signed with Tehran and ignore Israeli pressures for delaying the deal that has also raised U.S. concerns.
MOSCOW - Russian government and environmental organizations said Wednesday that they will launch a major international campaign to protect the world's tigers and begin...
Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev speaks with German journalists Sunday at the Gorki residence outside Moscow. Sanctions against Iran should not be ruled out if it fails to agree to restrictions on its nuclear program, Medvedev told the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel. Mikhail Klimentyev/REUTERS From Christian Science Monitor: Russia signals that it is open to tougher sanctions on Iran, which has...
Russian government and environmental organizations said Wednesday that they will launch a major international campaign to protect the endangered Siberian tiger and begin increasing its population.
Vladimir Putin has made headlines by championing the endangered Siberian tiger _ posing with a cuddly cub and placing a tracking collar on a full-grown female in the wilds of his country's Far East. Now Russia is helping plan an ambitious program it hopes can double the global tiger population by 2022.
On November 9, 2009, the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Reason senior editor Michael C. Moynihan discussed his article " The Cold War Never Ended " on the Kremlin-backed television station Russia Today and who—if anyone—deserves credit for killing off the evil empire.
Sberbank, Russia's largest retail bank, plans to shed up to 67,000 jobs, or a quarter of its workforce, by 2014, a senior company official said on Wednesday. "Over five years, we plan a 20-25 percent cut in personnel. We confirm that this task is realistic," Denis Bugrov, a vice president and member of the bank's management board, was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency. Bugrov said...
BY JOSHUA KUCERA In Hohhot, the capital of the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia, there is a brand new Genghis Khan Square with a huge equestrian statue of the conqueror, and next to it runs Genghis Khan Boulevard. That China would so honor Genghis Khan, whose Mongol armies overwhelmed China in the 13th century and ruled it for more than a century, would seem unlikely. But Beijing, in an attempt to...
MOSCOW -- Russian government and environmental organizations said Wednesday that they will launch a major international campaign to protect the endangered Siberian tiger and begin increasing its population.
Russian PM Vladimir Putin has issued a fresh warning to Ukraine over potential gas siphoning from pipelines. Last winter Moscow cut gas supplies to Europe during two weeks over a gas dispute with Kiev.
The consequences of General Motors ’ decision to keep Opel/Vauxhall continue to pile up. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has criticized General Motor’s decision not to sell Opel/Vauxhall to Magna International.
Everyone’s waiting to see how French automaker Renault SA would respond to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s ultimatum to help Russian automaker AvtoVAZ or see its stake reduced. Putin said in front of government officials that Renault has to help fund the enterprise or its stakes would have to be divided.
Wellbeing Newsline: Europe > Edited by Andy Porter: The deterioration of the human rights situation in Russia, especially the northern Caucasus, was the focus of a public hearing last week which involved Members of the European Parliament [MEPs] and Russian activists... Wellbeing Newsline > Magazine > Contributors > World > Europe > United Kingdom > England > Scotland > Northern Ireland > Wales > Greater...
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