Russian Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev, says the Russian Federation will continue to privatize state-owned assets and the timing will depend on the markets, not sanctions applied against Russia by the West. “Privatization will take its course. It is not connected with the sanctions, it depends on market conditions: we will…
Romania’s president said Thursday he needs more time to nominate a new prime minister, delaying the confirmation in office of the country’s first female Muslim premier amid signs of unease. The Social Democrats, winners of the Dec. 11 elections, on Wednesday proposed economist Sevil Shhaideh, a little-known former minister, who…
Monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) were fired upon while conducting a mission in Donbass, near the town of Yasynuvata, while inspecting a water treatment plant that was damaged by rebel forces. The OSCE team were surrounded, a drone was seized, and rifle fire was…
The Mazraa Neighborhood in Damascus where the Russian embassy is located, underwent mortar fire by militants, reports RIA Novosti. Two shells exploded near the territory of the Russian diplomatic mission, no deaths and injuries. According to the Syrian army, the fire was from Jobaria, which is under the control of…
Russia is “categorically opposed” to the termination of the New START nuclear arms control treaty, the head of the Federation Council’s defense committee, Viktor Ozerov, said on Feb. 24. Russia will push for an extension of the treaty, Ozerov said adding that it was “fundamental to global security” the RIA…
Russia has long prided itself on its simple 13 percent flat income tax rate. But a series of reform proposals could push the country towards a progressive alternative. The Finance Ministry, the Economic Development Ministry and the Center for Strategic Research (CSR) are actively developing reforms for the Russian tax…
Poland considers its dispute with the European Commission about the country’s rule of law closed, its foreign minister said on Tuesday, leaving Brussels with a tough decision on whether to attempt to punish Warsaw. The Commission, the EU’s executive body, gave Poland a deadline to implement measures it deems essential…
The question of abolishing the visa regime for citizens of Georgia is connected with the establishment of full cooperation between Russian and Georgian law enforcement agencies. Such cooperation is hampered by the lack of diplomatic relations between two countries – Lavrov, Foreign Minister of Russia, said in Munich on February…
In spite of the conflict in East Ukraine that has taken 10,000 lives, the Ukrainian government in Kyiv has continued to trade in coal with the separatist East, even while they kill each other. It is an arrangement with the devil of sorts, where Ukraine needs the specialized coal for…
Hackers broke into the security cameras in a private clinic in Moscow and secretly sold the opportunity to watch the operating table or examination table for the price of two cups of coffee – Reports BBC Russia. Obviously, tens of thousands of cameras can be accessed through the internet….