Russia
Russian labor market: Why unemployment is lower than expected
November 04, 2009By Paul Goble In the early 1990s and especially over the last year, many Russian commentators and politicians have competed among themselves in predicting extraordinary increases in unemployment, in both cases to figures comparable to those which...
Russia to lend Moldova 150m dollars
October 12, 2009Russia will grant Moldova 150m dollars as a state loan in 2009. Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat and Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Aleksey Kudrin reached an agreement to this effect on 9 Oct. 2009, the Moldovan government's press...
Moldova's temperature in the "CIS economy"
October 08, 2009The results of eight months of the CIS economic life do not differ considerably from the deplorable results for the first half-year, experts, who analyzed the data, published by the CIS Statistic Committee, came to this conclusion. Compared with the...
Gazprom dominates Russian political power making
October 08, 2009By Roman Kupchinsky In 2003 a team of Russian foreign policy and energy experts wrote a 70 page memo about the role of Gazprom, the state-owned gas monopoly, in Russia’s domestic politics and the country’s foreign policy strategy. The document...
EU May Grant $150 Million To Crisis-Hit Moldova
October 08, 2009An EU envoy says the European Commission could give Moldova at least 100 million euros ($147 million) to help it cover its growing budget deficit, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. The announcement was made on October 7 in Chisinau by Wolfgang Behrendt...
IMF, WB revise loan conditions to support E.Europe through crisis
October 07, 2009By Ron Synovitz Russia said this week that it will not disburse the last $500 million tranche of a stabilization loan to Belarus and that it will not grant a $5 billion loan to Ukraine. Speaking in Istanbul at the start of the annual International...
Gulf Oil Producers, Others Ready To Dump Dollar
October 07, 2009Britain's daily "The Independent" has reported that Gulf Arab oil producers held secret talks with oil buying states on moving away from using the dollar as the sole currency for transactions. Just hours after the story was published, Saudi...
Moldova's industrial output and freight turnover decline in 2009
August 20, 2009Moldova registered the CIS worst industrial output and freight turnover indicators for the first half-year. According to the CIS Committee for Statistics, the average industrial slippage for the first half-year in the CIS countries constituted 15% against...
Remittances to Moldova decrease by more than 30 percent
August 19, 2009The volume of money transfers through banks from Moldovan' physical persons, who work abroad, exceeded US$515.03 million for the first half-year - 31.8% more against the same period of 2008. According to the data by the National Bank of Moldova (NBM...
Gazprom, Turkey Revive and Reconfigure Blue Stream Two
August 11, 2009By Vladimir Socor Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin wooed Turkey's AKP government with grandiose vistas of a bilateral partnership on energy during his visit to Ankara (EDM, August 7, 10). Along with his proposal to build Gazprom's South Stream...