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Postby behappyalways » Tue Feb 14, 2017 5:33 pm

Death throes of Russia's iconic countryside
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Re: Russia 03 (Oct 15 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Thu Feb 23, 2017 10:09 am

Russian Love Affair With Trump Sours As U.S. And Russia Move Toward War

By Michael Snyder

As you will see below, under President Trump U.S. troops are being deployed to a very sensitive area of Poland, and they are also being sent to key areas of Bulgaria and Romania.

That is not sitting well with the Russian government, but they were much more upset when Trump insisted that Russia must give the Crimea back to Ukraine.


On the flip side, the Pentagon was quite annoyed when Russian fighter jets buzzed a U.S. warship in the Black Sea just a few days ago, and when a Russian spy ship set up shop just off the coast of Connecticut recently


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Re: Russia 03 (Oct 15 - Dec 17)

Postby behappyalways » Tue Mar 21, 2017 6:30 pm

2017.03.19文茜的世界財經周報/雅虎5億帳號遭駭 美:俄特工雇用駭客犯案
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Re: Russia 03 (Oct 15 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Sat Apr 08, 2017 9:04 am

Russian PM: “US On Brink Of Military Clash With Russia”

By Tyler Durden

Russia has carried out airstrikes in tandem with its ally Syria since Sept. 2015, while Iranian militias are also fighting alongside the troops of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.


The ICRC, guardian of the Geneva Conventions setting down the rules of war, declared Syria an internal armed conflict – or civil war, in layman’s terms – in July 2012.

Under international humanitarian law, whether a conflict is internal or international, civilians must be spared and medical facilities protected.


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Re: Russia 03 (Oct 15 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Wed Jul 26, 2017 9:13 pm

Russia Warns of ‘Painful’ Response If Trump Backs U.S. SanctionsBy Stepan Kravchenko

U.S. measures leave no room for better relations, Ryabkov says
Russia readying economic, political retaliation, senator says

The measure, which now goes to the Senate, requires Trump to seek congressional approval before easing sanctions imposed under the Obama administration for Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential elections and its support for separatists in Ukraine.



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Re: Russia 03 (Oct 15 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Sat Jul 29, 2017 12:01 pm

What Yesterday’s Energy Sanctions on Russia Really Mean

by DR. KENT MOORS

Source: Oil & Energy Investor

https://oilandenergyinvestor.com/2017/0 ... ally-mean/
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Re: Russia 03 (Oct 15 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Wed Aug 09, 2017 7:55 am

Russia responds to new U.S. sanctions by dumping the dollar

Russia will speed up work on reducing the country’s dependence on Western payment systems and the U.S. dollar in general


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http://thecrux.com/russia-responds-to-n ... he-dollar/
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Re: Russia 03 (Oct 15 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Wed Sep 20, 2017 7:35 pm

'I was just doing my job': Soviet officer who averted nuclear war dies at age 77

On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov was on duty in charge of an early warning radar system in a bunker near Moscow, when just past midnight he saw the radar screen showing a single missile inbound from the United States and headed toward the Soviet Union.


“The siren went off for a second time. Giant blood-red letters appeared on our main screen, saying START. It said that four more missiles had been launched,” he said.


From the moment the warheads had taken off, there was only half an hour for the Kremlin to decide on whether to push the red button in retaliation and just 15 minutes for Petrov to determine whether the threat was real and report to his commanders.


Taught that in case of a real attack the US would have gone on an all-out offensive, Petrov told his bosses the alarm must have been caused by a system malfunction.

It was later revealed that what the Soviet satellites took for missiles launch was sunlight reflected from clouds.


Based on his story, the movie “The man who saved the world” premiered in 2014, featuring actor Kevin Costner. The actor sent Petrov $500 as a “thank you” for making the right decision.


Source: Russia Today

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Re: Russia 03 (Oct 15 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Wed Oct 11, 2017 1:24 pm

Russia’s economic prospects are better than you think…

by Jim Rickards

Source: Rickards’ Gold Speculator

Russia is the 12th largest economy in the world with about $1.3 trillion in GDP. That is slightly larger than Australia or Spain, and significantly larger than well-liked emerging markets economies such as Mexico, Indonesia, and Taiwan.

Russia’s sovereign debt-to-GDP ratio is a microscopic 17%. Compare that to the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio of 106%, more than six times larger. Other debt-to-GDP zombies are Japan (240%), France (96%) and the UK (89%).


Russia is the world’s second largest oil exporter (after Saudi Arabia) and the world’s largest exporter of natural gas.

Russia is also the world’s third largest gold producer after China and Australia, and ahead of the United States.


Today, Russia’s reserves are back up to a healthy $425 billion, recovering over 40% of the reserves lost in the oil price collapse


Russia now has a gold-to-GDP ratio of almost 6% — more than three times the comparable ratio for the U.S. R


Russia has revved up its export economy. These exports include arms sales to cash customers such as Iran and Turkey.

Russia is also a major exporter of nuclear power plants. Russia recently signed several major deals with Turkey on the expansion of Turkey’s nuclear power generating capacity, for example.

Russia is also harvesting a bumper crop of wheat both from Russia itself and parts of eastern Ukraine effectively dominated by Russia.


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Re: Russia 03 (Oct 15 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Fri Oct 13, 2017 2:35 pm

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Frightful ETFs to Flee: Direxion Daily Russia Bear 3X ETF (RUSS)

The Direxion Daily Russia Bear 3X Shares (NYSEARCA:RUSS) is an ETF that like some of the other Direxion bear or inverse ETF that invests in derivative securities that are structured to track the opposite movement of an index.

In the case of the Russia Bear ETF, the fund targets the opposite of the DAX Global Russia Index.

And with the 3X in its name, the ETF leverages its positions to move in the opposite direction of the leading Russian stocks by three times. So a bet against the Russian market gets multiplied.

And that’s a real problem for this ETF with it generating a loss of over 24% so far this year. And for the trailing twelve months, it lost 53% and over 93% for the past five years.

You would’ve thought that a bet against the Russian market would’ve been a pretty good bet. After all, Russia is facing some pretty significant challenges.

First, the nation has a litany of economic and trade sanctions being levied against it over various accusations of military and other adventures.

And second, Russia and its markets and economy are very dependent on oil and natural gas which continue to be down in value from past peaks resulting in a dramatic loss of revenue for Russian companies and the government.

So, on the surface, these should be bad for stocks and good for an inverse tracking ETF. But Russia has turned the tables on its challenges.

It has become very self-sufficient when it comes to its food, consumer and industrial goods. This has resulted in local companies generating larger gains in their sales inside Russia.

And even the petroleum sector continues to improve, particularly with a mild bump up in crude prices in cooperation with OPEC nations particularly with a renewed relationship with Saudi Arabia.

And the Russian government was prepared. Typically in the past when Russia had economic strife it would spend heavily to support the Russian ruble. But over the past three years, it has allowed the ruble to float and fall. This has had a great positive impact on the economy.

First, it has limited outbound spending by Russians on travel and foreign purchases — redirecting that spending domestically.

And its exports, where and when allowed, are resulting in gains in ruble terms and greatly improved margins, particularly in crude and natural gas exports. The net result is that the market for leading Russian stocks continues to be a very positive with local indices up more than 40% over the past five years.

Like the nation or not, Russia is proving resilient and the markets prove it. This makes an ETF bearish bet on Russia a bad one.

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