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Concerns about inflation persist and the ruble continues to struggle against the dollar. In August the bank increased the lending rate to 12% — a jump of 3.5 percentage points — as the ruble fell to 100 against the greenback.
If you feel that Europeans drink a lot, your hunch is correct: people across the continent consume more alcohol than in any other part of the world.
If you feel that Europeans drink a lot, your hunch is correct: people across the continent consume more alcohol than in any other part of the world.
GOA, India: Foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) gathered in India on Thursday (May 4) to discuss regional security matters, including adding Iran and Belarus to a union of nations seen as a counterweight to Western influence in Eurasia.
If you feel that Europeans drink a lot, your hunch is correct: people across the continent consume more alcohol than in any other part of the world.
Was it really worth it? That was the first question I asked British Gymnastics’ new chief executive, Sarah Powell, when those stomach‑retching stories in the Whyte review became public. Were those 16 shiny Olympic medals won since 2008 really justified by the human cost – of so many young gymnasts starved, humiliated and abused by a system that ruthlessly put the pursuit of glory over their welfare? “For me it is not about medals and welfare,” she replied. “It can be both and it should be both.”
Plans are being drawn-up to "transform" NATO in the wake of the Vladimir Putin regime's invasion of Ukraine, so that the military alliance would be able to repel an invasion by Russia along its eastern borders.
But more broadly, the war did not happen in a vacuum: of all the former Soviet states, Ukraine is the one with the largest Russian population. The breakup of the USSR was described by Putin way back in 2005 as the last century's "greatest geopolitical catastrophe." And just as the Russian president has had 22 years to consolidate his grip on the oligarchs, the media and the security apparatus, he has also moved methodically to restore and grow the grandeur of Russkiy Mir, the Russian world.