... the Crimea annexation—Russia gets Crimea and despised elites are punished too.
Nevertheless, new sanctions on Russia’s financial, energy, and defense sectors in July and September will have growing costs for key companies and the overall economy over time. Moscow’s retaliatory ban on certain Western agricultural imports shows that Russia is ready to engage in a tit-for-tat economic conflict—even though Russian officials recognize the economic asymmetries between their country ...
On September 16, 2014, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov received a delegation of international financial group J.P. Morgan that included Head of EMEA Country Risk Rene Ramos, Head of Central Eastern Europe Sovereign Risk Luigi Sorvillo and Executive Director for Risk Assessment Aleksandar Kukic.
The participants discussed Russia-related risks since the bank uses the practice of rating agencies to assign its in-house credit ratings to emerging markets where certain credit hazards may arise. To...
An American and two Russians have landed safely in Kazakhstan after 5 ½ months in space… and to think there is no cooperation toward a more peaceful world between the United States and Russia.
Meanwhile, private citizens of Qatar, and other friends of the United States, have been financing Hamas and ISIS. Now, as Washington prepares to launch a new campaign to destroy global terror networks an American website with ties to the J Street lobby claims that the RUNET (Russian Internet)...
... strengthen the foundation for a lasting future.
Multilayered European Trade
This unique Swiss scheme, advantageous for maneuvering between various trade blocs, has made the model attractive for Euroskeptics in other advanced North European economics.
The economy of Greater Europe of today has emerged as an ongoing history of mergers and assimilation of various economic blocs. Formally, the largest integration union is the European Economic Area (
EEA
), which is hardly an organization but rather a collection ...
... government has pursued over the six months since the armed coup on February 21-23, 2014 is aimed at breaking existing economic ties with Russia (without offering an adequate alternative) and appears to be absolutely suicidal (both to the country’s economy and the existence of the state). There is no explanation for the policy in terms of economic interests. This is a political decision made within the framework of the declared policy of "European integration” and in fact is an illustration ...
Interview
Every year on August 15 the world’s largest democracy celebrates its Independence Day. India is the fastest growing economy after China. But what drives its growth and how will the country’s economic policy change after the election of the new Prime Minister, Narendra Modi? We asked Andrei Volodin, Senior Research Fellow at Eurasian Studies Centre, Institute ...
Calling the BRICS development bank “an insurance policy against the risk of U.S. sanctions,” experts at the prestigious Brookings Institution have joined Washington’s effort to disrupt the Russian economy and punish nations who do business with it. Branded as the world’s most influential think tank with an endowment upwards of $262 million, Brookings has been on Uncle Sam’s payroll since 1916, providing guidance on domestic and international ...
... potential within the Transcaucasian environment, as well as economic and energy relations between Armenia and Russia.
In 2013, Armenia announced its willingness to become a member of the Customs Union. Does this desire arise mostly from security or economy considerations?
The decision appears fully based on economic, economic security and national security concerns, three issues that are inseparably linked. As a matter of fact, these aims are reachable only with Russia’s assistance, i.e. Russian ...
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[xvi] Ironically, Ukraine has been asked to pay higher prices than their European counterparts. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-03/russia-to-charge-ukraine-more-than-germany-as-gas-discounts-end.html
[xvii] http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/shifting-energy-trends-blunt-russias-natural-gas-weapon/2014/02/28/7d090062-9ef7-11e3-a050-dc3322a94fa7_story.html
[xviii]http://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/region__ext_content/regions/europe+middle+east+and+north+africa/ifc+in+europe+and+central+asia/countries/promoting+energy+efficiency+in+ukraine+residential+housing
... Regardless of motive and method, the loss of workable land hurts not only the harvester, but also has broad consequences for his neighbors in terms of erosion, downstream flooding, and pollution. As the demand for water grows with population and the economy, water supplies will be increasingly polluted from untreated sewage, from industrial discharges, and from salt-water intrusion of overexploited water tables. A good policy to bring about progress and development along with the concept of maintaining ...
