Russian Village Coffee Thoughts… (09-09-2014)

Above some Herons who are camera-shy… The village is staying busy and it is due to the monastery. Monks everywhere and now heavy equipment everywhere also. They are leveling the monastery territory and going to fence the monastery by next year. I see that next year the monastery will most likely have a car bridge […]

The Dubious Success of NATO’s Summit in Wales by YEVSEYEV, Vladimir…

On September 4-5, Wales hosted the most recent NATO summit. But instead of addressing real issues related to the withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan and the crises in Iraq, Syria and Libya, the allies obsessed over the mythical Russian threat. Moscow, which released a sensible peace plan for southeastern Ukraine the day before the […]

Dmitry Medvedev has given an interview to the Vedomosti newspaper on its 15th anniversary…

Above: Dmitry Medvedev with Vedomosti Editor-in-Chief Tatyana Lysova, Deputy Editor-in-Chief Kirill Kharatyan and Economics Desk Editor Filipp Sterkin (Link) Question: Clearly, events surrounding the crisis in Ukraine and Crimea’s unification with Russia have had a big impact on the economy and the investment climate. Businesses now face a different environment than they were expecting. People […]

China One Country At A Time…

(Reuters) – Argentina, which defaulted on its debt in July, will receive the first tranche of a multi-billion dollar currency swap operation with China’s central bank before the end of this year, the South American country’s La Nacion newspaper reported on Sunday. The swap will allow Argentina to bolster its foreign reserves or pay for […]