MOSCOW — Russia’s prime minister, Vladimir V. Putin, whose government took control of several oil companies when he served as president, gave a speech Tuesday saying the s... Read more
With the world nearing crisis mode over the Iranian nuclear initiative, what support can the United States expect from the USSR? Yevgeny Primakov held three of the top positions in th... Read more
The ministry has prepared a document, a copy of which was obtained by Vedomosti, spelling out how the state will support cities that are overreliant on one industry. The plans include an alg... Read more
Dmitry Medvedev has been busy gearing up for the G20 summit in London, set to mark the next litmus test of his almost year-long presidency. As part of this preparation, he sat down with the... Read more
Russia plans to hold an international conference to discuss the creation of a global currency to replace the dollar. According to the RIA news agency, Andrei Denisov, Russia’s first de... Read more
Pyotr Aven, president of Alfa Bank, one of Russia’s largest private banks, called on the government to move swiftly to recapitalise the top 30 banks and name the institutions that will... Read more
However, Barack Obama, the US president, and Dmitry Medvedev, his Russian counterpart, still have much to discuss when they meet for the first time in London on Wednesday. They must do their... Read more
In a six-page document addressed to the upcoming G20 summit in London, the Kremlin said that the current global economic downturn was the result of a "collapse of the existing financial... Read more
The much anticipated leadership changes in Russia and in the United States have begun bearing the first fruit. Both presidents have unequivocally stated that they would seek a new start in b... Read more
Igor Shuvalov, Russia’s liberal deputy prime minister, threw down the gauntlet to the country’s powerful energy and metallobbies yesterday, saying several years of low com... Read more
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