Category: Russia
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Sochi Terror Attack Alert - The Lost Lady Of Islam / Politics / Russia
By: Andrew_McKillop
Putin Winds Back His Gains of 2013
News reports now place the probable cost of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia at more than $51 billion making them the most expensive-ever. Security costs help explain this. Vladimir Putin's ironclad determination to make the games a success – makes them a rising political risk, not only for domestic political consumption but also a challenge to Russia's federal unity and relations with its Asian neighbors, and internationally. Making the Sochi games a PR disaster is the goal of Putin's enemies.
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Wednesday, December 04, 2013
Russia Investment Opportunities, Stocks Selling at Deep Discounts / Stock-Markets / Russia
By: DailyWealth
Kim Iskyan writes: Last month, I caught up with an old friend in Moscow.
My friend is a banker. He has lived in Russia for 10 years... and he has seen all kinds of economic swings in what was the old Soviet Union. He has also seen an extraordinary turn of events...
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Saturday, October 05, 2013
Why Obama Should Give his Nobel Peace Prize to Putin / Politics / Russia
By: Pravda
Nomination of President Vladimir Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize is actively discussed in the world. In the West the idea was taken mostly with skepticism, but there is some unexpected support. Putin is thanked for singlehandedly preventing the third world and being able to resist the pro-Israel lobby in the United States.
On Wednesday, the initiative of All-Russian Fund of Education and the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation was supported by Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro. He said that if anyone in this historic moment deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, it was President Vladimir Putin who helped to stop a war that threatened the Syrian people, Maduro said as quoted by EFE.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Investors - Why Russia is Hard to Ignore / Stock-Markets / Russia
By: Frank_Holmes
Russian President Vladimir Putin created a stir recently when he shared his thoughts with Americans in an op-ed printed in The New York Times. According to The Times, very few pieces written by heads of state have been published by the paper and very few received the attention Putin attracted. But will the plea be influential? Will it change President Barack Obama’s or Americans’ opinion on the matter of Syria?
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Saturday, August 17, 2013
Russian Economy to Fall into Abyss? / Economics / Russia
By: Pravda
Experts are debating whether Russia's economy has slipped into a recession or whether it is "safely" stagnant. The difference between stagnation and recession is of insignificant technical nature. However, the dispute over the terminology also has a political dimension, and for that reason it was joined but such heavyweights as Alexei Ulyukayev, the Economic Development Minister, who argues that the economy is stagnating.
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Sunday, July 21, 2013
Financial Reforms Drove the Soviet Union Into the Grave / Politics / Russia
By: Pravda
Who of the famous people in Russia's modern history said the phrase: "I wanted the best, but it turned out as always"? There is quite a list of names that comes up in this connection, although it is associated with only one man - the Minister of Finance of the USSR, Valentin Pavlov, who once upon a time intended to stabilize currency in the country.
Many details of that story have been forgotten, although one should always keep such events in mind not to step on a rake again.
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Sunday, April 21, 2013
Cyprus Crisis Prompts Russia to Create its Own Tax Haven / Politics / Russia
By: Pravda
Since the time of the financial disaster in Cyprus, Russia has been cherishing the idea of creating its own offshore. It was previously suggested the special tax area should be created on the territory of Russia's Far East. A new idea has appeared now - to create an offshore zone on the base of the International Investment Bank (IIB). Many analysts were left perplexed with such a suggestion.
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Thursday, April 11, 2013
Russia: A Dirt-Cheap Investor Profit Opportunity / Stock-Markets / Russia
By: Investment_U
Carl Delfeld writes: Russia is one big country.
With 6.6 million square miles inside its borders, it is the world’s largest sovereign landmass. Giant companies such as Lukoil dominate the Russian economic landscape. The big bosses in Moscow control these behemoths.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
The Past, Present and Future of Russian Energy Strategy / Politics / Russia
By: STRATFOR
Lauren Goodrich and Marc Lanthemann: The future of Russia's ability to remain a global energy supplier and the strength the Russian energy sector gives the Kremlin are increasingly in question. After a decade of robust energy exports and revenues, Russia is cutting natural gas prices to Europe while revenue projections for its energy behemoth, Gazprom, are declining starting this year.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Superstitious Russians spent 30 billion on Preparing for Apocalypse / Politics / Russia
By: Pravda
The Russians, who shared the horror of impending apocalypse with the rest of the world, spent 30 billion rubles on the eve of December 21st. The calculations were made by FBK analysts, who examined the data on the structure of trade turnover and services purchased in December. The end of the world did not come, but many people have to deal with its consequences now - the shortage of money.
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Monday, October 08, 2012
Russian Ruble the Next Reserve Currency? / Currencies / Russia
By: Pravda
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has recently surprised the international business community by saying that the Russian ruble could become an international reserve currency in the near future. The current situation in the global economy suggests such a development. Experts tried to figure out to which extent it was possible and what the move could bring to Russia.
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Monday, May 28, 2012
Sibera Could Vote to Seperate From Russia and Join United States / Politics / Russia
By: Pravda
The idea to separate Siberia and annex the territory to the United States of America has been engrossing the minds of Siberian separatists for a long time already. Surprisingly, or maybe not, they find the support from across the ocean.
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Monday, May 28, 2012
Euro-zone Crisis Will Hit Russia Hard / Economics / Russia
By: Pravda
The political collapse in Greece and Moody's downgrade of the rankings of 16 Spanish banks at once have led to the decline in stock indexes all over the world. In Russia, the head of the Central Bank, Sergei Ignatiev, showed an optimistic reaction to such unpleasant news. Making a speech at the government last week, the official urged everyone not to panic. According to him, Russia is prepared to the crisis much better than it was four years ago.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Russia's Strategy, Remaking the Union / Politics / Russia
By: STRATFOR
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 reversed a process that had been under way since the Russian Empire's emergence in the 17th century. It was ultimately to incorporate four general elements: Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus and Siberia. The St. Petersburg-Moscow axis was its core, and Russia, Belorussia and Ukraine were its center of gravity. The borders were always dynamic, mostly expanding but periodically contracting as the international situation warranted. At its farthest extent, from 1945 to 1989, it reached central Germany, dominating the lands it seized in World War II. The Russian Empire was never at peace. As with many empires, there were always parts of it putting up (sometimes violent) resistance and parts that bordering powers coveted -- as well as parts of other nations that Russia coveted.
Monday, March 12, 2012
With Putin in Power It's Laughable Russia is One of the BRIC Economies / Politics / Russia
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
The re-election of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin last week means even more crony capitalism in Russia.
With Putin in power nothing will change.
In fact, it's laughable that Russia is still even considered among the group of the world's most glamorous emerging markets - otherwise known as the "BRICs."
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Sunday, March 04, 2012
Russia Election Fraud, Czar Putin Elects Himself President of Corrupt Russian Mafia State / Politics / Russia
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Czar "Prime Minister" Putin in September 2011 decided they would swap jobs again with his President front Man Medvedev and today Vladimir Putin elects himself President for another 6 year term in a repeat smoke and mirrors bogus fraudulent election.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
There's Value Investing in Russia's Future / Stock-Markets / Russia
By: Frank_Holmes
As Americans ponder the merits of Obama vs. Gingrich, Paul, Romney or Santorum, Russia will be electing its own president on March 4.
Perhaps we should say "re-electing" since it's almost certain former president and current prime minster Vladimir Putin will be elected. While protests and vocal opposition likely won't prevent Putin's presidential return, they have forced some interesting changes to the political climate and we've observed some positive changes in Russia's investment landscape.
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Russia Least Free Economy Plauged by Rampant Corruption, Hong Kong Most Free / Politics / Russia
By: Pravda
The country with the freest economy on the planet is Hong Kong. Such a statement was made by Heritage Foundation, a US-based NGO. The "Index of Economic Freedom" made by the organization is based on the degree of openness of markets, the effectiveness of the legal framework for business activities and the apparatus of government officials and regulatory authorities.
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Monday, November 21, 2011
Russia Ups Ante with Caspian Neighbors by Moving Offshore / Politics / Russia
By: OilPrice_Com
On 16 November in Astrakhan Lukoil president, Vagit Alekperov told journalists that his company will spend over $16 billion over the next decade to develop the country's Caspian offshore Korchagin and Filanovskii oil and natural gas fields in the Caspian, at the signing of a cooperation agreement with the Astrakhan Region.
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Russia Rebuilding an Empire While It Can / Politics / Russia
By: STRATFOR
Lauren Goodrich writes: U.S.-Russian relations seem to have been relatively quiet recently, as there are numerous contradictory views in Washington about the true nature of Russia’s current foreign policy. Doubts remain about the sincerity of the U.S. State Department’s so-called “reset” of relations with Russia — the term used in 2009 when U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton handed a reset button to her Russian counterpart as a symbol of a freeze on escalating tensions between Moscow and Washington. The concern is whether the “reset” is truly a shift in relations between the two former adversaries or simply a respite before relations deteriorate again.