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RUI acquaints foreign listeners with all diversity of political and social-economic life in Ukraine. 1st Channel 2nd Channel 3rd Channel RUI. Russia halfway past efforts to create international finance center - Medvedev | Business. Russia is halfway past its efforts to create an international financial center in Moscow, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday. At a meeting with the director of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Medvedev spoke about Russia's plans to turn Moscow into an international financial hub.
"So far, we are at the organizational stage of creating an international financial center, adopting laws and seeking to improve the investment climate and create the infrastructure," Medvedev said. "I hope we are already halfway past our efforts to achieve the result, which is also very important," he said. Medvedev first announced the project at the 12th St. Today, there are two major global financial centers - London and New York. Medvedev said today it was important for Russia to focus on international aspects of creating an international financial center. "If we speak about internal financial issues, all of them have been resolved to some or other extent.
HONG KONG, April 17 (RIA Novosti) Intellectual property (TRIPS) - Notifications under the TRIPS Agreement. Glossary - a guide to ‘WTO speak’ International - Default Revolution. Default Revolution Belarus Must Look Towards Russia Once Again as the Guarantor of the Political Status Quo, In Order To Save Its Weakened Economy By Tom BalmforthRussia Profile04/05/2011 Belarus’ frail economy is in the grips of a crisis similar to the one that drove Russia to default in 1998 and President Alexander Lukashenko must rely on a lifeline loan from Russia to avoid a significant devaluation of the Belarusian ruble. The quid pro quo for Moscow is unclear, but Minsk is vulnerable. Lukashenko, the wily ex-farm boss and nonpareil at playing the East off against the West, must cut down an $8.5 billion current account deficit and replenish thinning foreign currency reserves, which plummeted to just $4 billion in the first two months of this year – a decline of 20 percent.
“The sooner the Belarus ruble is devalued, the better it will be for the economy,” said Anton Struchenevsky, an economist at Troika Dialog in Moscow. Add to blogsharesend to friendprint Add to blog Publication code: Dmitry Medvedev: Russian ministers must quit boardrooms. 30 March 2011Last updated at 18:22 Mr Medvedev singled out the practice of ministers acting as regulators and company directors Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev has announced that by mid-2011 he wants government ministers to give up their seats on boards of directors.
The proposal is being seen as a potential blow to a close ally of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Igor Sechin. Mr Sechin is chairman of state oil firm Rosneft and, as deputy prime minister, regulates the gas and oil industries. The president said he wanted to end "the excessive influence of state companies on the investment climate". Mr Medvedev told a meeting of his modernisation commission in the city of Magnitogorsk that corruption remained a factor, in a speech broadcast live by state news channel Rossiya 24. He said that he himself had served as chairman of the board of directors of Russia's state gas monopoly, Gazprom. Continue reading the main story Analysis Steve Rosenberg BBC News, Moscow That may be harder to do now. Kazakhstan - From Regional Discourse to Global Security. Tbilisi Condemns Sokhumi, Moscow 'Border Talks' Guest post: oil windfall gains still to come for Russia investors | beyondbrics | News and views on emerging markets from the Financial Times.
Russia Seeks Foreign Investment to Fill Budget Gap. Yet just last month, Mr. Putin, now prime minister, said Russian officials “understand that we need foreign investment.” And if the current president, , continues with his plan to attend the in Davos, Switzerland, this week — despite Monday’s airport bombing in Moscow — he, too, will be trying to attract foreign capital.
What has changed, to turn the sweaty fist into the open hand? Simply put, Russia needs the money. Windfall profits from exports, which Russia had salted away before the global to cover deficit spending, are about to run out. Thus, for the first time since the financial crisis of 1998, Russia will be compelled this year to turn to international banks and pension funds in the United States and Europe to maintain financing for everything from modernizing the military to paying high public sector wages. The government is also lining up a fresh batch of asset sales. Russian officials all the way up to the Kremlin are clearly trying to entice other foreign investors as well.