TRADE: Crisis Pushing Emerging Markets to Move Beyond the Dollar
Kester Kenn Klomegah interviews VIKTOR POLIKARPOV of the Russia-South Africa Business Council
MOSCOW, July 7 (IPS) - The global economic crisis is pushing countries in regions with emerging markets, such as Russia and South Africa, to together move beyond the dollar-based economic model. Given their politico-economic similarities, these two countries should build on opportunities to share expertise and technology.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, July 18 (AP) – Nelson Mandela's fans celebrated the anti-apartheid icon's 91st birthday Saturday by emulating him with good deeds, reading to the blind, distributing blankets to the homeless or refurbishing homes for AIDS orphans.
Russian Government Submits Trade Law To State Duma
MOSCOW, July 15 (Itar-Tass) -- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has signed a resolution ordering the draft federal law “On the Main Principles of State Regulation of Trade Activities in the Russian Federation” to be submitted to the State Duma.
HEALTH-AFRICA: Where To Find A Million New Nurses?
By Kristin Palitza
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, July 21 (IPS) - If developing countries want to succeed in improving their health systems, they urgently need to decentralise them and shift tasks from doctors to nurses and community health workers,
New Federal Law Making It Easier for Foreigners Whose Children Are Russians to Acquire Russian Citizenship
On June 28, 2009 the President of the Russian Federation signed a Federal Law amending Articles 6 and 7 of the Federal Law on the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the RF and Article 14 of the Federal Law on RF Citizenship.
By BONO, Op-Ed Guest Columnist, The New York Times
NEW YORK, July 10 (NYT) - Soon, Air Force One will touch down in Accra, Ghana; Africans will be welcoming the first African-American president. Press coverage on the continent is placing equal weight on both sides of the hyphen.
Street Names And Babies’ Names To Remember Michael Jackson
By Kester Kenn Klomegah, Staff Writer
MOSCOW, Russia, July 7 (Buziness Africa) – In Ukraine, an ex-former Soviet republic, Michael Jackson, the late king of popstar, is deeply loved in loved and admired not only by the youth but also the country’s parliamentarians that they have started considering passing a bill
MOSCOW, July 7 (IPS) - The global economic crisis is pushing countries in regions with emerging markets, such as Russia and South Africa, to together move beyond the dollar-based economic model. Given their politico-economic similarities, these two countries should build on opportunities to share expertise and technology.
Kester Kenn Klomegah interviews IVETTA GERASIMCHUK, head of trade and investment programes at World Wildlife Fund-Russia