Vladimir Putin signed a decree on salary cuts for Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and employees of the presidential administration. Their salaries will decrease by 10 percent. The salaries of employees of the presidential administration are traditionally higher than those of other officials. According to Rosstat, in 2014, employees of the presidential administration received the highest average ...
Thirty years ago, historian and diplomat George F. Kennan published a landmark article in Foreign Affairs entitled "Morality and Foreign Policy," in which he condemned the stubborn tendency of American foreign policy makers to view any emerging geopolitical problem as a solvable problem ...
An editorial titled "Ukraine's Next Battleground Will Be the Economy," published on Bloomberg, says that saving the economy will require a massive debt write-off agreement, but that could be as difficult as crushing a backed ...
This is evidenced by the results of a study by Bloomberg, during which the level of “unhappiness” was determined based on unemployment and inflation rates in 51 countries. According to the agency’s research, Venezuela was the most “unhappy” country in terms of the state of its economy, followed by Argentina and South Africa. In fourth place...
Russian President Vladimir Putin Plans to cut his salary by 10%. Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the country's leader, writes about this. According to him, this can be done as part of measures to optimize federal budget expenditures. Peskov also stressed that this decision will be ...
During 2014, Russia reduced its investment in US government bonds by $ 52,6 billion. According to data released by the US Treasury, in December 2013, Russia owned US securities totaling $ 138,6 billion. In December 2014, Russian investments in US government bonds fell to $ 86 billion. The RF most actively sold US government bonds ...
The Statistics Committee of Belarus has published macro-indicators of the country's development. Compared to last year, agricultural output increased by 5%, inflation was 17%, and GDP remained virtually unchanged. GDP - 99,6%, industrial output - 93,8%, agricultural output -...
Expenses associated with the maintenance of government bodies and subordinate organizations will be optimized by 9% or 103 billion tenge, Finance Minister Bakhyt Sultanov said during the consideration of the law “On Amendments to the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On the Republican Budget for 2015-2017”. Most…
The American Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report on employment in New York. It turned out that in five years the city lost 32 jobs and 357 manufacturing companies. However, in general, the number of jobs in the metropolis continues to grow, the main ...
Real estate prices in New York continue to rise, and the boom in this market does not end in sight, writes AM New York. The journalists discussed the situation with experts in the field of commercial real estate. Financial services company TIAA-CREF has closed a deal to buy a building in ...