NEWS

2015-08-28

Russia Won't Take a Haircut on Its Ukraine Loan as West Wants
And why should it? The west continues to pretend that since private creditors are taking a haircut on their loans so should Russia - but Russia is not a private entity and meanwhile western institutions and states are refusing to take a haircut themselves

A reminder - by the terms of the agreement Russia could have called in the loan a year ago - but opted not to
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2015-08-27

Russia to Cooperate With UK, Germany in Space
Russia's space agency signs a number of agreements on cooperation with its German counterpart. Meanwhile a UK company may sell the guidance system for Russian satellites
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2015-08-27

'Old Guard' Pragmatists Oppose Western Policy on Ukraine
Ex-German chancellors Gerhard Schroeder and Helmut Schmidt and Henry Kissinger are the biggest names among them

By Dmitry Babich
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2015-08-27

Don't Get Too Attached to a Weak Ruble. The Dollar Is Coming Down
Dollar is over-valued and has to come down. Look for the market to wake up to that when the Fed doesn't raise interest rates as expected and inevitably sends the US currency tanking

Aside from helping the ruble in direct competition with the dollar, this will send commodities up - further boosting Russia's currency

By Marko Marjanović
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2015-08-27

Victoria Nuland: We do want to be able to communicate clearly with Russia
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2015-08-26

Pentagon's Mysterious 'Russia Threat'
Pentagon can't explain how or why Russia is a threat, it just knows it is. The concept is doing great to feed the US military machine but the Russians aren't standing by idly

By Pepe Escobar
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2015-08-26

Money Still Rules Ukraine
President Poroshenko talks big about reform — but he’s missing what may be his only chance to break the power of the oligarchs.

By Taras Kuzio
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2015-08-26

In Search of Western Values

By Edward Lozansky
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2015-08-26

Anti-American Sentiment Surges in Russia as US Officer Taunts From Perch at Fox News Retired General who called for US to 'start killing Russians' says he bought a polonium detector

By Mikhail Klikushin
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2015-08-25

Actually Donald Trump Is a Hardliner on Russia
Trump has always positioned himself to the right of Obama on foreign policy, including on Russia
His supposedly ‘Russia-friendly’ comments are merely remarks by a self-centered guy used to getting his way

By Danielle Ryan
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