The reason why Russia may have opted out of the WTO Daily Star Lebanon | By Anders Aslund | Commentary by | Wednesday, July 01, 2009 | - Powered by | Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin recently announced that Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan had abandoned their separate talks to join the World Trade Organization. Instead, they would seek to enter the world trade body...
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Russia to preserve trade preferences for Belarus Pravda RU | Russia intends to preserve trade preferences for Belarus despite the switch of world energy prices, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told parliamentary group leaders on Sunday. Russia to preserve trade preferences for Belarus BREAKING NEWS Michael Jackson's death shocks the world Tribal dancing for R...
Belarus receives 2nd tranche of IMF loan The Guardian (adds details on funds received) MINSK, July 2 (Reuters) - Belarus has received over $600 million as the second tranche of an International Monetary Fund loan, the Belarussian central bank said on Thursday. Earlier this week, the IMF approved a secon...
The reason why Russia may have opted out of the WTO Daily Star Lebanon | By Anders Aslund | Commentary by | Wednesday, July 01, 2009 | - Powered by | Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin recently announced that Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan had abandoned their separate talks to join the World Trade Organization. Inst...
Russia to preserve trade preferences for Belarus Pravda RU | Russia intends to preserve trade preferences for Belarus despite the switch of world energy prices, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told parliamentary group leaders on Sunday. Russia to preserve trade preferences for Belarus BREAKING NEWS Michael Jac...
Belarus requests financial help from EU The Guardian MINSK, June 24 (Reuters) - Ex-Soviet Belarus, which has been seeking improved relations with the West, has requested financial assistance from the European Union, its finance minister said on Wednesday. "We have made a request on this matter to EU st...
Europe Betrays Its Mission In Prague Wall Street Journal By BORUT GRGIC From today's Wall Street Journal Europe. | The much-anticipated Prague Summit between the European Union and our eastern partners was a flop. The eastern partnership...
The Europeans should bring their last dictator in from the cold Daily Star Lebanon | By Charles Tannock | Commentary by | Saturday, May 09, 2009 | - Powered by | The European Union recently embarked on a policy of "constructive engagement" with Belarus. None too ...
Belarus: Retaliation in Russia Trade War The New York Times | Belarus will impose strict customs controls on main roads to Russia starting Wednesday in response to Russia's trade war against Belarus, the official BelTA news agency quoted Belarussian officials as saying on Tuesday. Russia banned Belarussian da...
Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko takes on ally Russia in 'milk war' The Times | Relations have soured between the last dictator in Europe and his closest ally after a "milk war" erupted between Belarus and Russia. | Alexander Lukashenko, the President of Belarus, snubbed a meeting of former Soviet republics in Moscow yesterday...
Russia, Belarus up war of words as rift widens The Star | MOSCOW (Reuters) - The rift between Russia and Belarus deepened on Sunday when Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko snubbed a security summit in Moscow in protest at Russia's "trade war" against his nation. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev a...
Barack Obama lauds fresh start with Russia The Australian | BARACK Obama has completed his first summit with Russia's leaders keen to talk up the results, after sealing a preliminary deal on nuclear arsenals and another on the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan. | The US President's chief adviser on Russia yesterday challenged analysts who said the outcome was modest and largely expected, with big dif...
E.U. Issues Big Antitrust Fines to E.ON and GDF Suez The New York Times | PARIS - The European Commission said Wednesday that it had fined the German utility E.On and its French rival, GDF Suez, Euro553 million each for refusing to compete against each other. | The commission, the European Union's competition regulator, said an E.On unit, Ruhrgas, and GDF Suez had agreed in 1975 not to sell imported Russian natural gas...
