Russia and Ukraine

Russia's exchanges threatened to hit their highest level since August 2008, giving a boost to companies coming back to Russia's IPO...

Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has instructed the Finance Ministry, the Economy Ministry, Vice Prime Minister Serhii Tihipko, and the Kyiv ci...

WASHINGTON, DC -- In December Ukrainian officials descended on Washington with one overriding mission –to convince the Obama administration ...

KIEV, Ukraine -- A top EU official accused Ukraine of dragging its feet on reforms at a summit in Kiev on Friday, while the ex-Soviet republ...

DNIPRODZERZHYNSK, Ukraine -- Ukraine has made some of the world's deepest cuts in carbon emissions over the past two decades, but the ri...

Russia's return to the debt market for the first time in a decade got a positive reaction from investors who appear ready to forgive and...

Russia's inflation could fall to just over 8 per cent, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Sunday, smashing earlier official forecasts of...

KIEV, Ukraine -- One of the opposition leaders in the city council Dmytro Andriyevsky warned on Oct. 28 that municipal debts are growing wit...

The international crisis dealt a severe blow to the Russian economy. The lower oil prices and reversal of international capital flows to eme...

Consumer prices in Ukraine in September 2009 renewed growth after a two-month seasonal halt: inflation last month was 0.8%. As the State Sta...

MOSCOW — Russia must sell stakes in state-run companies at market price when it launches a new round of privatizations to help pull the econ...

Many of Moscow’s foreign media are worrying about rising costs after the Foreign Ministry’s property department notified them that rental ra...

Alfa Group and Norway’s Telenor on Monday agreed to end a long-running feud by combining their telecom assets in Russia and Ukraine in a dea...

KIEV, Ukraine -- One year after the economic crisis plunged Ukraine into one of Europe's deepest slowdowns, the country's economy re...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called for more public-private partnerships to pull Russian regions out of the crisis faster and to free one-i...

Kyiv-based Scandinavia company, a large operator on Ukraine's fish market, is to open 25 fish mini-markets under the Rybny Domik brand i...

Underlying inflation in Ukraine in August 2009 remained at the level registered in July 2009 – 0.5% compared to 0.9% registered in June 2009...

Vladimir Tikhomirov, Chief economist UralSib The rouble will not collapse. Russia has an administered currency, which means that any major c...

The ruble is likely to strengthen in the medium term because of higher commodity prices, Anatoly Aksakov, a bank lobbyist known for sending ...

KIEV, Ukraine -- Following the recent backdown over the presidential veto by President Viktor Kuschenko of the Ukraine, the gambling ban has...