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Bloomberg - Wed Nov 25, 3:21 am ET
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Russia’s Micex Index, the world’s best-performing benchmark equity gauge this year, will surpass 1,400 by the end of December as oil prices rally, said Richard Ross , a technical strategist at brokerage Auerbach Grayson & Co.
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The Daily Reflector - Tue Nov 24, 2:52 pm ET
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — French officers on Tuesday showed off a cutting-edge warship to a potential buyer — the Russian navy, whose pursuit of an amphibious assault capacity is frightening some neighboring countries.
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Bloomberg - Tue Nov 24, 10:50 pm ET
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuela and Russia agreed to invest about $6.4 billion in a joint fund to pay for new oil projects in the South American country.
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Bloomberg - Wed Nov 25, 3:53 am ET
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- The Russian government may sell a stake in VTB Group for as much as 300 billion rubles ($10.4 billion) that it acquired this year for 180 billion rubles as part of a program to stabilize the financial sector, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said today at a conference in Moscow organized by the Vedomosti newspaper.
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Space War - Tue Nov 24, 11:20 pm ET
Moscow (UPI) Nov 23, 2009 - A French amphibious assault ship -- of a type Russia hopes to buy -- has arrived in St. Petersburg, sparking unease among neighboring nations and the United States.
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MSNBC - Tue Nov 24, 10:53 am ET
The beheaded bodies of a police officer and a bailiff have been found in a volatile province in Russia's North Caucasus, officials said Tuesday.
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WashingtonTV - Wed Nov 25, 4:38 am ET
Moscow, March 3 (Reuters)—Western observers and independent Russian monitors criticized Russia's presidential election on Monday as neither free nor fair, but said its outcome broadly reflected the will of the people.
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The Forex Market - Wed Nov 25, 3:08 am ET
MOSCOW (Dow Jones)--Russia plans to gradually increase its intervention in foreign currencies within the moving trading corridor that it has set for the ruble and the euro and dollar, the Russian central bank's Deputy Chairman Alexei Ulyukayev said Wednesday.
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New York Times - Wed Nov 25, 6:56 am ET
Gruner + Jahr , the German publisher, said Tuesday that it was selling its Russian operations to Axel Springer after concluding that it would need to make too many expensive acquisitions to gain a leading market position.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 25, 6:32 am ET
The Canadian dollar rose to a one-week high against the U.S. dollar on Wednesday after the Russian central bank said it was preparing to invest some of its foreign exchange reserves in the Canadian currency.
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Park Hills Daily Journal - Wed Nov 25, 12:53 am ET
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Russia have agreed on the broad outlines of a deal to replace a major Cold-War era arms control agreement and are trying to work out remaining technical issues, U.S. officials say.
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Bloomberg - 2 hours 23 minutes ago
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- The Russian government may sell a stake in VTB Group , the country’s second-biggest lender, and targets a premium as high as 67 percent on the purchase price, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 23, 4:32 pm ET
U.S. negotiators working to conclude a new strategic arms treaty with Russia are discussing ways to continue nuclear weapons monitoring until the new accord can be ratified, a State Department spokesman said on Monday.
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Bloomberg - Tue Nov 24, 2:21 pm ET
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev fired four top military officers after two explosions at a Ulyanovsk military depot this month left 10 people dead.
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Boston Globe - Tue Nov 24, 12:48 pm ET
The U.S. says President Barack Obama's top military adviser attended the latest talks with Russia to replace an expiring Cold War-era arms control agreement.
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Bloomberg - Tue Nov 24, 8:08 am ET
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Russia’s central bank cut its key interest rates to a record low in the ninth reduction since April as it seeks to deter speculative bets on the ruble and ease credit flows to households and businesses.
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Market Watch - Tue Nov 24, 5:40 am ET
Russia’s central bank lowers its refinancing rate by 50 basis points on Tuesday, extending its easing cycle.
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Bloomberg - Tue Nov 24, 11:04 am ET
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Daimler AG is in talks about raising its stake in OAO KamAZ , Russia’s biggest truck maker, to expand in Europe’s No. 1 market for the vehicles.
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Bloomberg - Tue Nov 24, 9:50 am ET
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Russian prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into the death of an imprisoned lawyer for Hermitage Capital Management after President Dmitry Medvedev demanded action.
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INO News - Wed Nov 25, 4:11 am ET
(RTTNews) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed into law a federal bill on energy-saving and energy-efficiency, besides making amendments to several pieces of legislation.