Eurasia Press & News
Only a few months ago, the Kremlin was talking about pricing its oil in rubles and making the ruble a regional reserve currency, giving it a status closer to that of the euro and the dollar.
Read More »Economic crisis compounds Russia’s demographic decline
The financial crisis in the Russian Federation has pushed up the already high rates of mortality from heart and circulatory diseases there to third world levels, according to medical experts. And that development combined with other trends likely makes the demographic future of Russia even bleaker than had been thought.
Read More »Ossetians kidnap six Georgians
Ossetians have abducted six ethnic Georgians from the villages of Zerti, Gori district. The men went to the forest for fire wood at 4pm yesterday and the separatist gunmen must have kidnapped them a few hours later.
Read More »Caspian Sea Meeting Kicks off in Tehran
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Second Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea inaugurated on Monday in Tehran.
Read More »Iran-Armenia Link to Cost over $1bln
TEHRAN (FNA)- A railroad connecting Iran and Armenia will cost at least $1bln, said Vladimir Yakunin, head of Russian Railways (RZD) which operates the Armenian railway network.
Read More »Russia’s Medvedev urges vigilance after bomb blast
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – Russia faces a lingering terrorist threat and cannot drop its guard, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday, a day after a suspected suicide bombing killed 12 people.
Read More »Big anti-Saakashvili protest in Georgia
There was tension on the streets of the Georgian capital, with a protest against the presidency of Mikhail Saakashvili.
Read More »Putin may return to Kremlin in ’09: report
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev could resign from his post in 2009 to pave the way for Vladimir Putin to return to the Kremlin, Vedomosti newspaper reported on Thursday, citing an unidentified source close to the Kremlin.
Read More »Iran, Azerbaijan, Russia to Discuss Railway Feasibility Report
TEHRAN (FNA)- Workgroups from Iran, Azerbaijan and Russia are due to convene in a meeting in Saint Petersburg from 17 to 19 November to discuss a feasibility study over the North-South railway, which is due to link Russia to Iran via Azerbaijan.
Read More »Georgian parliament endorses new prime minister
TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgia’s parliament endorsed career diplomat Grigol Mgaloblishvili as prime minister on Saturday in a step billed by President Mikheil Saakashvili as the start of a reform drive.
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