Running 'Cause I Can't Fly (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
"Abandoning The USS Dollar" by Jennifer Barry Some things never change... "Robert Fisk's article in "The Independent" on October 6, "The Demise of the Dollar," has created many shock waves in the currency markets. Fisk reported that major Arab nations are secretly planning to dump the current petrodollar scheme in favor of pricing oil in a basket of currencies. Included...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
TAIPEI, Taiwan - The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) will lead a delegation consisting of 13 Taiwanese companies to visit Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Moscow from 6th – 18th October. The purpose of this visit is to explore the various opportunities these
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) will lead a delegation consisting of 13 Taiwanese companies to visit Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Moscow from 6th – 18th October. The purpose of this visit is to explore the various opportunities these markets have to offer. TAITRA will also seize the chance to strengthen cooperative ties with its Russian...
emreiseri (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Medvedev Clings to Advancing the Ruble as Reserve Currency Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 6 Issue: 123 June 26, 2009 12:54 PM Age: 80 days Category: Eurasia Daily Monitor, Home Page, Domestic/Social, Economics, Elite, Foreign Policy, Russia By: Yuri Zarakhovich Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin (L) at the G8 finance ministers meeting, on 12 June 2009, in Lecce, Italy. The internecine...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
Drug police in Russia's Urals city of Yekaterinburg seized around 13 kilograms (28 pounds) of heroine from three Tajik citizens, a police spokesman said
aangirfan (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
From left, Brazilian President Lula da Silva, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Chinese President Hu Jintao and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pose for a photo in Yekaterinburg. www.chinadaily.com.cn/.../17/content_8291113.htm The USA has noted that Russia, China, India, Iran, Pakistan, Brazil and Indonesia have all become closer friends. ( India PM Stands By Statements To Improve Pakistan Relations...
Bill Totten's Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/13/2009
by Chris Hedges {*} Truthdig (June 14 2009) This week marks the end of the dollar's reign as the world's reserve currency {1}. It marks the start of a terrible period of economic and political decline in the United States. And it signals the last gasp of the American imperium. That's over. It is not coming back. And what is to come will be very, very painful. Barack Obama, and the criminal class on...
aidan maconachy blog (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
Yekaterinburg, Russia James Hudson, Britain's deputy consul in Yekaterinburg has resigned after a video appeared on www.informacia.ru showing him having sex with two prostitutes. The video titled Adventures of Mr Hudson in Russia has a professional look suggesting Russian security services might be behind it. The individual who appears on the video is the spitting image of the diplomat, so there isn't...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
A British diplomat in Russia has resigned after allegedly being filmed having sex with two prostitutes, in a classic sting operation apparently masterminded by the country's security services. James Hudson quit as deputy consul general in Yekaterinburg after the video – entitled Adventures of Mr Hudson in Russia – mysteriously surfaced on a local website (www.informacia.ru). The film,...
Maurizio - Omnologos (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Government representatives of more than 3.3 billion people have recently met in Yekaterinburg, Russia, for the first BRIC (Brazil-Russia-India-China) summit (16 June) and the ninth Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)’s Heads of State summit (15 June). One for all major Western anglophone news channels, you’d think? Think again. The only reason I have learned about it is because [...]...
The Truth Will Set You Free (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
By Chris Hedges June 14, 2009 This week marks the end of the dollar’s reign as the world’s reserve currency . It marks the start of a terrible period of economic and political decline in the United States. And it signals the last gasp of the American imperium. That’s over. It is not coming back. And what is to come will be very, very painful. Barack Obama, and the criminal class on...
Open Source Information News (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
M K Bhadrakumar By the yardstick of Jacques, the melancholy philosopher-clown in William Shakespeare's play As You Like It, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has indisputably passed the stage of "Mewing and pucking in the nurse's arms." Nor is SCO anymore the "whining schoolboy, with his satchel/And shining morning face, creeping like snail/Unwillingly to school". The...
The "NOAH" Prophecy (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
By Eric Walberg Yekaterinburg, famous tragically as the spot Lenin chose to have the Tsar and his family executed in 1918, and ironically as the fiefdom of Boris Yeltsin, who finished off the Russian revolution itself in 1991, witnessed something no less remarkable last week when leaders of the so-called BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) held their first summit, following the yearly meeting...
LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
BRICs, emerging markets and the world economy Not just straw men The biggest emerging economies are rebounding, even without recovery in the West THE inaugural summit of the BRICs—Brazil, Russia, India, China—came and went in Yekaterinburg this week with more rhetoric than substance. Although Russia’s president, Dmitry Medvedev, called it “the epicentre of world politics”,...
Counterfire blogg (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009
The Russian city of Yekaterinburg on May 16 hosted the first official summit of BRIC, a group comprising four countries showing the highest rate of economic growth – Brazil, Russia, India and China. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in the wake of the summit that the event was aimed at promoting a fairer world order. The BRIC [...]
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