News Source: Moscow Times
| about 1 year ago
The government has pledged to allocate some $200 billion in loans and tax cuts, among other measures, to help companies and banks deal with the crisis. Tiptoeing around the word "crisis," which state television has largely avoided in reference to...
News Source: Taiwan News
| about 1 year ago
Russian stocks dropped Monday on declining world oil prices and new struggles for control of the world's largest nickel miner, prompting regulators to suspend trading on one of the country's two exchanges...Trading had resumed Monday for the first...
News Source: Novayagazeta
| about 1 year ago
On 5 October, on his own birthday, the Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov signed the decree about re-naming the Victory Avenue after V.V.Putin. “The role by Vladimir Putin cannot be overestimated within the story of relations of Chechen and...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
Vladimir Putin was presented with a 75-day-old, 20-pound female tiger cub on his 56th birthday. Putin invited journalists to his dacha and took them to the room where the cub was curled up in a wicker basket...All he would say was that the cub would...
News Source: Associated Press
| about 1 year ago
President Dmitry Medvedev watched a missile soar from Russia's rain-soaked northern forests toward a target thousands of miles away on Sunday, capping a weekend of launches reminding audiences at home and abroad about the country's nuclear might.
News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 year ago
UR unloved politicians will need some ingenious ways of boosting their popularity after we're presented with Tuesday's hairshirt budget. They should take a leaf out of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's book because he's just released a martial...