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The head of Fitch international rating agency, James McCormack, said that Russia's rating was under pressure as the country had no new foreign direct investment. Is foreign investment vital for economic development? Ratings are deceiving us. Capitals do not experience their best times now

On September 1, Russia has chaired the UN Security Council. Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a speech at the jubilee session of the UN General Assembly in New York. The press has already dubbed the possible meeting between the Russian and the American presidents "the clash of the titans." Putin has spoken at the UN General Assembly before

First-ever joint military exercises of paratroopers from Russia, Belarus and Serbia are to start in two days near Novorossiisk, Russia. Under the scenario of the drills that will be held on September 2-5, "anti-government elements" and regular armed forces will be trying to destabilize the state of affairs in a conditional state

The Arctic development is one of the major directions of the Russian strategy. Some experts say that the Arctic development is very expensive. However, indifference will cost more.

The problem of Donbass residents' legal status is quite serious. While Ukraine does not need these people, simplified procedure to get Russian citizenship will be put into effort.

The decline of the Russian national currency in August has become an unpleasant surprise to both the leadership of the country and common people. Some experts believe that the ruble may soon hit the level of 70 rubles per dollar. August is traditionally a hard month for the financial market in general, and the Russian ruble is no exception

The political games are full of all sorts of tricks: a friend today can become an enemy tomorrow, the publication wrote. It is the political elite who hangs the labels of 'good' and 'bad', and it is common people who suffer. The "bad guys" have the oil that the "good guys" need to live the way they live now to roll in clover

The decree about special economic measures to ensure the security of the Russian Federation came into force in Russia on August 6. The authorities of the Belgorod region are planning to bulldoze seven tons of chees that was arrested on the border. Tons of cheese and pork are to be destroyed in Orenburg and St. Petersburg

The systematic information war against Russia, the Russophobic campaign, began in the 1820s and has never stopped ever since. Today, Russia is losing the media warfare - we do not have great skills in this type of war. Today, though, the situatin is changing and Russian state-run media have crushed the "fifth column"

What influence does the key rate of the Central Bank have on the Russian economy? If you have access to foreign money, you raise this money at the interest rate of four percent. If you work with Russian money, you raise this money at 15-20 percent. The key rate is the basic parameter that differentiates the types of countries on their economic system

In a recent statement, the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation said that the activity of the US-based non-governmental organization National Endowment for Democracy in Russia was undesirable. Officials with the US State Department released predictable comments after the decision was announced

When the president of Estonia called some of his colleagues "Putin's useful idiots," none of them protested. The rank of "Putin's useful idiots" includes Western businessmen, politicians, journalists and even generals. 'Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience," Mark Twain once said

BRICS has revived friendship and cooperation between Russia and South Africa. The relations between Pretoria and Moscow, including economic ones, experienced hard times since the 1990s. The West was doing its best to set Russia and South Africa against each other. As a result, both sides have lost a lot

On July 22, a group of French MPs - republicans, leftist and centrist parliamentarians arrived in the Crimea. During their stay on the peninsula, the officials intend to learn more about its residents and assess the level of living standards in the region to give French citizens firsthand information about life in Russia's Crimea

The Russian royal family and four of their servants was brutally murdered in July of 1918 in the basement of the Ipatiev house in the city of Yekaterinburg. The aim of the ruling circles of Great Britain and certain circles in the United States was to overthrow and kill of the Russian royal family

Everyone can see what is happening in the economies of Western Europe. Their growth is zero. Russia will have the same if it sticks to European partners only. Now look at the countries of the Asia-Pacific region. They have five-seven percent of economic growth. Chinese economy grows by seven percent. Russia's goal is to leave Europe behind

This comparison is incorrect. Firstly, one needs to understand that in the Donbass, it was common people, who took weapons in their hands. They organized themselves and started fighting to exclude their own mass extermination - genocide - that the Ukrainian government was going to conduct in the east of the country

The West is changing its nuclear strategy. They intend to pull out from the treaty on short and medium-range missiles. The United States will thus be able to deploy medium-range ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and ground-based missiles in Europe. All this is being done for the so-called decapitating and preemptive nuclear strike on Russia

Anti-aircraft missile system S-400 "Triumf" is second to none in the world and is recognized as the most advanced system of the kind. The idea to create a long-range system appeared during the 1990s to destroy targets at a maximum range at medium altitudes

Economists surveyed by Bloomberg named ten countries with worst expectations for GDP growth this year. Russia is to be ranked second in terms of GDP reduction - 3.5 percent - after Ukraine's four percent. Is it possible to say that the Russian economy is one of the weakest in the world?