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Emerging markets are starting to resemble pole-vaulters who, no matter how high the bar is raised, jump over it effortlessly. Back in April, the Institute of International Finance - a global club of banks - had predicted private capital inflows to emerging markets would total $709bn this year; it now recognises emerging markets will pass that level with ease. So the IIF has raised the bar: its new estimate is $825bn - that’s $116bn higher.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be in Moscow from March 18 to19. Despite the fact that her visit had long ago been scheduled to take place, it will be occurring after an important telephone conversation between presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama.

What a difference 30 years makes — in sports, and in politics. Now, as the United States team prepares for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, do we really care if we beat Russia?

The winter holidays have only just ended here, but many Russians are already planning their next European getaway, buying plane tickets and reserving hotels. They are also compiling bank statements, gathering insurance forms, paying fees, taking photographs, making photocopies, waiting in long lines and being interrogated by embassy officials — all to receive a European visa, a kind of permission slip to enter the rest of the Continent that like little else underscores the walls still dividing Russia from the West.

A think-tank close to President Dmitry Medvedev has released a report recommending a radical overhaul of Russia’s political system, including a return to gubernatorial elections, the disbanding of the Federal Security Service and the Interior Ministry, and Russia’s accession to NATO and the European Union.

Gold has climbed to an all time high on renewed speculation about the U.S. dollar, after a report by British journalist Robert Fisk suggested key economies were planning to move away from the dollars reserve status.

The U.S. dollar continued its six-month slide Tuesday amid a growing international chorus that wants the dollar replaced - or at least supplemented - as the world's reserve currency, a move that would end the greenback's six decades of global dominance.

Russian Oil Companies Are the Weak Link in the Kremlin’s Plans to Expand Its Grip on Downstream Assets Abroad

Are Skyscrapers a Crime Against St Petersburg’s Heritage, or a Boon to Its Development?

The markets started October in dramatic fashion, as worse-than-expected U.S. economic numbers and falling oil prices put the brakes on the five-month rally.

The Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin launched a fierce presidential battle for 2012 more than two years ahead of schedule, by saying that he and the current President Dmitry Medvedev would “figure it out between ourselves which of us would run in 2012.” 

PARIS — Russia’s appetite for joining the World Trade Organization appears to have evaporated, even though the trade group has been proving its mettle in discouraging protectionist reactions during the recent financial upheaval, the head of the W.T.O. said Friday.

In late September, Russia’s prime minister Vladimir Putin summoned chief executives from 10 global energy companies to meet inside the Arctic Circle, on the gas-rich peninsula of Yamal.

When I was assigned to work at the Soviet Embassy in Beijing in 1982, many of my fellow diplomats asked, “What did you do wrong to get such a terrible, backwoods assignment?”

Competition for resources in the Arctic Circle could provoke conflict between Russia and Nato, a newly appointed commander at the alliance warned yesterday.

"I think Russia has begun to see many more indications that Iran is engaging in threatening behavior. Certainly these last incidents seem to confirm that. And, finally, the Russians were very supportive of our sanctions against North Korea. President Medvedev said in this room that sanctions may not be preferable, but they may be inevitable."

--Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sept. 27, 2009

Iran's traditional emblem has been the Persian lion. Russia's should be a vulture: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin intends to feed on the carcass left by any confrontation with Iran.

Russia is preparing for a new wave of privatization according to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The move could help not only improve Russia’s budget outlook, but also its image.

Producers and Consumers Alike Seem to Support Medvedev’s Proposed Anti-Alcohol Measures, but What Happens When the Nation Sobers Up to Face Reality?

This week's much-anticipated European Union-commissioned report into the causes of the Russian-Georgian war of August 2008 predictably spread the blame for the conflict around. While Georgia was also censured, the text is devastating to Russia's narrative of the conflict.