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The Trans-Caspian Pipeline: Geopolitics Near and Abroad
Russia’s energy control appears to be soon coming to a halt as Caspian members, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, plan on gaining control over vital areas...
The Silk Road Superhighway: Kazakh Transportation as Geopolitics
It is entirely common for a federal government to make budgetary promises to improve infrastructure. Indeed, every country around the world is full with...
The “BRICS Bank”: Many challenges and many opportunities
The New Development Bank (NDB) that was set up in July 2014 promises to be at least for now an important part of the...
Financial Institutions to Support Russia-African Business Projects
An Interview with Dmitry Golovanov Russian financial institutions have shown high interest in helping to raise the economic and business profiles both ways, Russian...
A major crisis
In Europe, significant changes occur. By main political causes, it seems that the issue of national identity conquers increasingly large part of the agenda...
SPIEF 2015: Tendencies and expectations
This week the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum, the biggest event in business life of Russia and its investors will take place. It is...
Tackling inequality is key to the post-MDGs development agenda
Fairness and equal opportunity are vital to rich and developing countries alike, warns Jan Vandemoortele, who was among the architects of the UN’s Millennium...
Kazakhstan beyond Borat
Kazakhstan, it seems, has a very clear and coherent idea of what kind of image does it want to project on the international stage...
BRICS Bank Could Change the Game
In full-fledged preparation for the official launch of BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) as an extraordinary highlight event during the July Summit under his...
Football, money and politics
Several days before the FIFA’s presidential elections, one of the biggest corruption scandals in the history of the organization has burst out. ...