The rouble’s value has dropped like it’s hot as the global economic crisis extended to Russia, and the initial negative coverage has taken an interesting spin. An article published in the Moscow Times Friday suggested that the ongoing devaluation of the national currency would balance out the over-high salaries of the last few years over [...]
Say wha? Russian politics professor predicts US will become junkyard salvage.
I first heard about this a few months ago in The New York Times when the recession was gaining its first wave of major press time, but it reappeared again in the Moscow Times on January 12 with some pretty strong language attached to it. Its clearly a heavy hitter with the latter paper’s audience; [...]
No end to gas woes
In my household, gas is something we only giggle about when we happen to stumble across it, but they just can’t stop discussing the stuff on the other side of the Atlantic. Chances are you’ve seen it in the news almost every day for the past month, but basically Russia and its national gas supplier, [...]
