by CBBSS | Dec 31, 2020 | International News and Analysis
Prominent Russian journalist Leonid Bershidsky writes in Bloomberg that the separation of Ukraine from Russia will probably be completed in 2016, and Ukrainians have more to look forward to than Russians. Ukraine remains corrupt and has an incompetent government, but...
by CBBSS | Dec 31, 2020 | Regional News
Turkish prosecutors say counter-terrorism police caught two aspiring Islamic State suicide bombers in Ankara who were planning a New Year’s Eve attack, Hurriyet Daily News reports. On Oct. 10, IS set off twin bombs in Ankara which killed 103 people. Read...
by CBBSS | Dec 31, 2020 | Regional News
The ruble fell to 73.2 to the dollar on Wednesday, the weakest Russia’s currency has been in a year, AP reports. The ruble lost 40 percent of its value in 2014 and has lost 20 percent of its value compared to a year ago. Read original...
by CBBSS | Dec 30, 2020 | Regional News
Russia announced plans to file charges against five men suspected of killing opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, Reuters reports. Moscow also named Ruslan Mukhudinov, a former officer in Chechnya’s interior ministry, as the mastermind of the assassination. Nemtsov...
by CBBSS | Dec 29, 2020 | International News and Analysis
Former Russian finance minister Alexei Kudrin says, following negative economic growth in November, Russia’s economy will continue to decline in 2016, if oil prices remain at their current level. A Forbes piece suggests Putin is wrong in claiming the Russian...