Russian president Vladimir Putin opened the door to renewed Middle East peace talks in Moscow in the near future according to the Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi. “Putin has told me that he is ready to receive [Abbas] and Netanyahu in Moscow to carry out direct talks to find a solution,”…
With the multi-year reductions in the U.S. military budget and the refusal of much of the NATO alliance to contribute the agreed upon percentage of GDP for their own defense, NATO finds itself pathetically unable to handle two geopolitical situations at the same time. Russia has been aggressively probing NATO…
The Russian recognized, separatist region of Georgia, known as South Ossetia, celebrated its 8th year of independence from Georgia this week on Aug 26th. The region had been contested since the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s and a second war was fought, this time between Georgia…
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Japan and Russia have long tried to end their difference from the Second World War and sign a peace treaty. A session of the third round of the Russian-Japanese negotiations on the peace treaty problem has been held in Moscow, the Russian Foreign Ministry informed on Friday, reports Russian state…
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Russia’s international reserves grew $2.5 bln over the week from August 12 to August 19 and totaled $398.2 bln, the Central Bank said on Thursday, reports Russian state news agency TASS. Having built up over half a trillion of foreign currency reserves during the hay day of high oil prices,…
A key initiative of the Russian government is to diversify the economy away from hydrocarbons. The arms industry has historically been a very important Russian export. However, it seems efforts to grow the domestic farm industry are paying off with agriculture exports currently running ahead of weapons shipments. Exports of…
The restrictions from the governor of the Novosibirsk region, Vladimir Gorodetsky, cover a wide array of employment sectors. His decree issued on Monday appears to be to protect key jobs for Russian citizens during a challenging economic period. It limits the areas where migrant workers – mainly from former Soviet…