I saw this and smiled today. I was wondering if Medvedev was going to do, what I thought he was going to do and he did… Azerbaijan is going to sell all its gas to Russia’s Gazprom.The picture above is President Dmitry Medvedev and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilkham Aliyev signing the contract… Under an agreement […]
As in the whole world, companies in Russia have resorted to job cuts over the past twelve months to stay afloat! Foreign workers were hit hard by these cuts and more than two thirds of expats in Russia have lost their jobs and have had to go home… The brunt of these expats are upper […]
July 6, 2009,The Kremlin, Moscow PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Mr. President, Barak, distinguished members of the American delegation, On this occasion I would like to welcome you in the Kremlin, and it is our expectation that during the deliberations we will have today and tomorrow we will have a full-fledged discussion of the relations […]
Putin told his government on Thursday that he met with truckers during his trip along Khabarovsk-Chita highway in the Far East and they asked to allow imports of used second-hand U.S. long haul style trucks… Putin responded, “The government will satisfy the requests of the drivers and will amend safety regulations for wheeled vehicles to […]
This video from Russia Today is about the information that Robert Fisk the Middle East correspondent of the The Independent has given out about the dollar, Fisk who holds more British and International Journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent has expressed real concern about the future of the dollar. In response the dollar took […]
There is no threat of a food deficit in Russia despite the recent drought, The President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, said during a meeting of the State Council on domestic food market policies in Saratov (Volga region). Medvedev promised to get control of speculative food prices and added that even according to the most pessimistic […]