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About 27% of banks left Russian market in two crisis years — Sberbank expert
May 19th, 2016
According to the analyst the number of banks reduced from 922 (as of early 2014) to 697 as of May 2016 About 27% of banks left the Russian market in two crisis years, most of them are medium banks ...
Hedge funds show best returns from Russian markets
May 16th, 2016
Russian assets have brought hedge fund managers 29 percent gains since the start of 2015, their highest revenues among emerging markets. The figure is eight times higher than the return on investments in China and 16 times greater than ...
Russian Ministries Question Bitcoin Criminal Liabilities
May 10th, 2016
The Ministry of Justice and the Interior Ministry in Russia have – according to reports – questioned the “public danger” that Bitcoin supposedly brings, as proposed by the Russian Ministry of Finance. Unsubstantiated reports from Russian news outlets quoting ...
Russian Official Calls for Criminal Liability for Bitcoin
April 21st, 2016
Russia’s Investigative Committee Chairman Alexander Bastrykin has, once again, opined that virtual and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are money substitutes or surrogates that need to be outlawed. He also claimed that virtual currencies are “often used” for the financing of ...
Russian court rejects Google’s anti-monopoly appeal
March 15th, 2016
The Moscow Arbitration Court has dismissed an appeal by Google against a decision by Russia’s competition watchdog that the US company broke anti-monopoly laws. The court upheld the ruling of Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) that Google abused its ...
Russian gas from Greece to Italy; the New project
February 29th, 2016
Gazprom revives ‘Poseidon’ Adriatic link Gazprom has revived a project that would see an offshore pipeline built to bring Russian gas from Greece to Italy. The new project is named “Poseidon”. What remains unclear is how the Russian gas ...
Russian economy hit by oil price slide
January 25th, 2016
Russia’s economy contracted by 3.7% in 2015, according to preliminary figures published by the country’s statistics service. Retail sales plunged by 10% and capital investment fell by 8.4% in the economy’s worst performance since 2009. In contrast, Russian GDP ...
Russian Oil: Output Grows as Prospects Shrink
January 25th, 2016
Plummeting prices and U.S.-led sanctions raise questions about Russian oil’s capacity to continue underwriting Putin’s global ambitions In the frosty swamplands of West Siberia, the drilling rigs of oil giant OAO Lukoil are helping raise Russia’s oil output to its highest ...
Russian watchdog to inspect Microsoft, McDonald’s for compliance with personal data law
January 12th, 2016
The regulator plans to hold over 1,000 scheduled inspections of compliance with the law on keeping of Russian users’ personal data on servers in Russia Central Federal District Department of the Russian IT and communications regulator will inspect a ...
Russian Information Minister Is Keen to Explore Blockchain Technology
December 22nd, 2015
Nikolai Nikiforov, the Russian Minister for Communications and Mass Media spoke about Bitcoin’s underlying technology, the blockchain. The Minister notes the distributed ledger technology as “very interesting” and intends to monitor its development going forward. Speaking at the ‘Internet ...
