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Archive for the ‘Russia’ Category
February 9th, 2015 - 12:10 pm § in Russia
USSR .. we are still super!
Vladimir Putin’s visits Egypt and agrees to military support for North Korea As the EU and US contend with Russian expansion into Ukraine, Russian president Vladimir Putin is reminding everyone that the USSR was once a world power. Ben Judah, a chronicler of Putin’s life, and the auth[...]
Putin’s Future
Silencing Putin’s foes won’t be easy By Lucian Kim Reuters Vladimir Putin’s strategy toward demonstrators has always been to break up any protest, no matter how small, to stop it from snowballing into something uncontrollable. But silencing his chief foe, opposition leader Alexei Na[...]
RUSSIA .. losing Putin’s chess game
RUBLE DROPS ANOTHER 5% [...]
Bruce Willis, Hero of American Right, Bankrupts Russian Bank
The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) said that a plan to loan Trust bank an amount of up to 30bn roubles (£343m) had been approved, while analysts warned that Russia’s banking sector had become particularly vulnerable. Trust bank has run a series of advertisements featuring actor Bruce Willis in Russ[...]
Obama Putin, The Chess Match
Russia begins mobilizing leftover reserves to save ruble The Russian Finance Ministry has begun selling its leftover currency reserves on the market, the ministry’s press office said Wednesday. Putin holds late-night talks on Ukraine with European leaders Russia’s President Vladimir Puti[...]
Putin Plays Bad Chess
Russian ruble suffers steepest drop in 16 years Although Russia’s public finances are much healthier compared to the 1998 crisis, analysts say the country is on the brink of a full-blown currency crunch. 11…[...]
December 11th, 2014 - 10:33 am § in Russia
Czar Vladimir
NY Times: Masha Gessen: The Myth of the OligarchsNYT Now Some of Putin’s opponents predict the oligarchs will eventually take him down. But there are no oligarchs in Russia anymore.[...]