Economy

Russia to Develop Economic Cooperation with Mozambique

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said a working visit to Moscow of Mozambiquean Foreign Minister Alcinda Antonia Abreu would be useful for the consolidation of bilateral cooperation in the international arena.

Popularity: 4% [?]

June 1, 2007

IMF Predicts Russian Economic Slowdown

Economic growth in Russia will slow down over the next two years, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday, April 11, in its annual survey of the global economy.

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April 12, 2007

U.S. Top Investor Warns of Russia Stock Bubble

Prominent emerging markets investor Jim Rogers said Russian equity markets were overvalued and could burst “sooner rather than later,” revealing the skeletons in the cupboard of its “outlaw capitalism,” the Reuters reports.

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March 14, 2007

Russia Denies Delaying WTO Accession Talks

On Monday, March 5, Russia denied criticism from the European Union and the United States that it is dragging its feet in talks on joining the World Trade Organization.

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March 6, 2007

Russian Stock Market in Danger After China Tumbledown

After Chinese stock market dropped by 9 percent on Tuesday, the suit was followed by the DJIA in the U.S. and by the European stock markets. Russian stock market is the next in line to undergo the test of what’s worth.

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February 28, 2007

Foreign Drugmakers Earn too Much on Russian Program - Putin

Vladimir Putin said Johnson & Johnson and Novartis AG are making too much money on the state’s $1.3 bln subsidized-medicine program.

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Russia Will Spent $3.5 Billion to Support Export Activity

A total of $3.5 billion will be spent in support of the export of Russian products, while the state Development Bank will begin to work in the second half of the year.

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Aeroflot May Still Buy Boeing Planes

According to Reuters, Russia’s top carrier Aeroflot could still buy aircraft from U.S.-based Boeing despite a major contract with Europe’s Airbus, Economy Minister German Gref told reporters on Thursday.

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February 23, 2007

End of Timber Imports from Russia may Lead to Loss of Jobs in Finland

The end of timber imports from Russia may lead to the loss of thousands of jobs in Finland’s forestry industry according to Finnish Forest Research Institute.

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February 22, 2007

Russian Finance Minister Forecasts that U.S. Dollar Will Fall

Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin forecasts that the U.S. dollar will fall against other global currencies. “The dollar will fall, the question is how fast,” Kudrin said on Wednesday, Feb. 21, giving a lecture at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics.

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