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Emerging Markets: What Has Changed This Week?
By Marc Chandler, Marc to Market Blog 1) Indonesia announced it will allow full foreign ownership in many local industries in an effort to boost foreign investment 2) The Thai military government called a referendum on the new constitution on July 31 3) Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party dropped its backing for candidate Wnorowski to join … Continue reading
Ukraine’s Naftogaz Increases Transit Fees For Russia’s Gazprom
“Ukraine’s state gas company Naftogaz has announced a “radical” increase in transit fees for Russia’s Gazprom,” RT reports. The head of business development of Naftogaz Yury Vitrenko on his Facebook page said the following: Ukraine has finally radically hiked transit fees for Gazprom (in full compliance with European principles), (…) Gazprom’s long-term efforts to bypass Ukraine … Continue reading
The IMF Changes Its Rules To Isolate China And Russia
By Michael Hudson A nightmare scenario of U.S. geopolitical strategists is coming true: foreign independence from U.S.-centered financial and diplomatic control. China and Russia are investing in neighboring economies on terms that cement Eurasian integration on the basis of financing in their own currencies and favoring their own exports. They also have created the Shanghai Cooperation … Continue reading
Meet The Press: Vladimir Putin’s Annual News Conference
Russian President Vladimir Putin held his annual press conference on Thursday with Russian and international journalists in Moscow. The 3 hour and 10 minute press conference was broadcast live by Rossiya-1, Rossiya-24 and Channel One, as well as Mayak, Vesti FM and Radio Rossii radio stations. The following is a transcript of the press conference, courtesy of the Kremlin. President of Russia Vladimir … Continue reading
Infographic: Visualizing The Fall Of The Mighty Euro
By Jeff Desjardins, Visual Capitalist The European Union has always been primarily a political project. The idea of the union was to take peoples that had long and complicated histories, and to place them in a situation where they must work together and shed their differences in order to achieve success. From the political angle, it can … Continue reading
EIB And World Bank Join Forces With New Agreement To Support Ukraine
Lima, 9 October 2015 – The European Investment Bank (EIB) and World Bank (WB) today signed an agreement under EU guarantee that aims to facilitate the purchase of gas by Ukraine’s national gas company, NJSC Naftogaz. The agreement was signed today by EIB President Werner Hoyer and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim. The EIB … Continue reading
Turkey’s Erdogan Warns Russia On Energy Deals
By Mark Snowiss Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, angered by Russia’s bombing campaign in Syria, warned Moscow on Thursday that Ankara may look elsewhere for partners to supply natural gas and build its first nuclear power plant. One of the top importers of Russian gas, Turkey has joined with Moscow in a major effort to construct … Continue reading
Putin’s Global Game Changer – OpEd
By Oriental Review Contrary to the expectations of many experts who were predicting a “second Munich” from Vladimir Putin in New York, the Russian president made no grandiose proclamations during his address to the UN General Assembly. In fact, he was outwardly far milder than one might have imagined. By comparison, Obama’s emotional speech, which was replete … Continue reading
Western Sanctions On Russia – Russia-China Cooperation: A Tectonic Shift Of World Economics, World Power?
By Peter Koenig and The Saker The Saker: How is Russia coping with sanctions so far and what are the prospects for the future? Peter Koenig: Let’s begin with what are ‘sanctions’? – Sanctions are (economic) punishments by the self-proclaimed empire in Washington and its European minions on any country that does not follow the … Continue reading
Bad News For Putin As Support For War Flags Beyond Russia’s ‘Troll Farms’
Eastern Ukraine has recently seen its worst period of attacks by Russian-backed separatists since they captured the town of Debaltseve in February. It had fallen in the days after the two sides reached the Minsk-2 ceasefire agreement. Ukraine, Russia and the West have repeatedly underlined the importance of Minsk 2, but whether it has been … Continue reading
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