Russian central bank hikes benchmark rate to 21%, highest since 2003
Russia's central bank hiked its key interest rate by 200 basis points on Friday to 21%, the highest level since the early ...
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Poverty in Russia needs to be brought down to minimum — Putin
NOVO-OGARYOVO, September 25. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged to bring poverty to a minimum in the country and lift "a considerable amount of people" out of it. "We all have ...
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Cursing The Curse Of Cursive
Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive, or else they don’t count. At least, that’s what I was taught growing up. (And I’m really not that old ...
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How to Rein in Russia’s Evolving Disinformation Machine
Hasan is a program associate in the Elections & Government Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law There is much to be gleaned from the U.S. government’s recent exposés of Russian ...
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Credit Card Minimum Payment Calculator
Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Sometimes you can only make the minimum payment on your credit card debt, and that’s OK. Making the minimum payment is better than ...
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Racism in Russia: Stories of prejudice
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests have not swept across Russia the way they have elsewhere, but people of colour living there have told the BBC about the casual discrimination they experience ...
Russia’s tacit grain export curbs cause market confusion
Russia's measures to curb grain exports are causing confusion in international markets as the absence of clear government instructions creates loopholes and potential friction with key buyers, traders ...
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Russia-Ukraine War
A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. Moscow is employing a variety of tactics ...
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Minimum subsistence level in Russia to go up by 23% by 2017 — economic ministry
MOSCOW, May 16. /ITAR-TASS/. The minimum subsistence level of the Russian population is projected to increase by 22.6% to 8,956 rubles ($257.8) by 2017, the Russian Economic Development Ministry ...
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Oil refining in Russia dropped to nearly yearly minimum due to drone attacks - Bloomberg
Oil refining in Russia has dropped to nearly a yearly minimum. The cause of this has been drone strikes on oil refineries and their slow repair, Bloomberg reports. The source indicates that from ...
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Putin says he's raising the minimum wage and pensions in Russia by 10% to counter inflation
Russian President Vladimir Putin is hiking the country's minimum wage and pensions by 10% to help counter soaring inflation amid hard-hitting sanctions over the Ukraine war, Reuters reported.
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Russia drill simulates "massive nuclear strike" in response to enemy attack, Moscow says
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday launched a massive exercise of the country's nuclear forces featuring missile launches in a simulation of a retaliatory strike, as he continued to flex ...