Major Russian exchange sells off after Putin criticizes a large steel firm and the CEO of a key oil company abruptly leaves the country. Investors piled out of Russian stocks Friday after the abrupt departure from the country...
by: Domenic Strazzulla posted on: July 25, 2008 | about stocks: MTL Mechel tumbled 38% on Thursday after Russia “Prime Minister” (more like ex–KGB autocrat) Vladimir Putin said that the Russian Anti Monopoly Service should pay...
LONDON (AFP) — The United States risks starting a new Cold War by proposing to build a missile shield in central and eastern Europe, former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev said in comments published here Wednesday....
Bureaucrats Behind Bars, or “Dictatorship of the law” – Putin-style Grigory Pasko, journalist On one of my business trips to Baikal last year, I made the acquaintance of the mayor of Listvyanka, Tatiana Kazakova. About Kazakova...
MOSCOW, July 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin is to fly to China on Friday for high-level energy talks with the Chinese government, the Russian government press service said. During the two-day...
Conventional wisdom holds that it’s better to be lucky than good. And by any measure, the Czech Republic is a very lucky country these days.While markets around the world are reeling from the sub-prime mortgage crisis, barely a...
English-speaking readers of Kommersant might have been disconcerted to learn that the new U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation is a bird. According to a guest at the Spasso House’s Independence Day bash, he appeared “such...
When Vladimir Putin talks, investors in Russia listen. Speaking at an industry conference this week, Putin, Russia's former president and now prime minister, spoke five sentences critical of one of his country's big steel...