Russian Agricultural Bank – Johnson's Russia List

Russia’s HIV Situation ‘Epidemic’ – Rospotrebnadzor

December 2, 2015 JRL Russia List Health, Epidemics, Substance Abuse

Microscopic Image of T-Cells Infected by HIV

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – December 1, 2015) Russia’s HIV infection rates have become epidemic, spreading to citizens beyond at risk groups, the head of Rospotrebnadzor’s epidemiology supervision department in St. Petersburg, Irina Chkhindzheriya said, the Interfax news agency reported. “We have to admit that the country’s soaring HIV rates can be described as epidemic. About 1 percent of Russians […]

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Russia’s state banks are rotten

July 1, 2015 JRL Russia List Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections

Diverse Paper Currency, Coins, Line Graph

(Business New Europe – bne.eu – Ben Aris in Moscow – June 29, 2015) Banks epitomise capitalism, but not in Russia. The financial industrial empires of men like JP Morgan, Rockefeller, Rothschild and Harriman are intimately tied up with creating the vibrant no-holds-barred capitalism in the US. In Russia the top five banks are all state-owned and their power comes […]