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The document provides for some extra moves to stimulate the repatriation of Russians living abroad.
Some of such moves are granting easy-term loans to buying housing, as well as providing aid in getting jobs.
More than 55,000 compatriots have returned to Russia from other countries in the past four years.
Voice of Russia, TASS, RIA
This year, St. Petersburg International Economic Forum is being held in a completely new format. VoR correspondent Anna Forostenko tells about peculiarities of the event:
The St.Petersburg International Economic Forum is being held in St.Petersburg between June 20th and 22nd. The Voice of Russia's correspondents interview a wide range of experts giving their take on economic issues and results of the forum.
The United States has no specific plans to establish a working relationship with Russia in order to implement previous proposals by U.S. President Barack Obama to further reduce nuclear weapons.
Russia will not accept the US’ proposal to reduce nuclear arsenals to the levels that were in place during Kennedy’s presidency. Moscow made it clear three years ago that it would not reconsider the provisions of the nuclear reduction treaty within the next few years.
Russia welcomes Iranian President-elect Hassan Rouhani's willingness to take a more creative approach toward settling the nuclear problem of Iran, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
Intensive financial integration within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union won’t lead to subsequent political unification of EAU’s member states, Russia’s deputy PM Igor Shuvalov said today at the Global Economic Forum in St. Petersburg.
Seven Russian Soyuz-ST launch vehicles will be launched from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana in 2013-2014, European Space Agency Director-General Jean-Jacques Dordain said at the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget on Thursday.
European aircraft manufacturer Airbus said Thursday that it has booked orders worth $39.3 billion (29.6 billion euros) at the Paris Air Show.
Russian human rights activists have written a letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron urging him to declassify the materials of Alexander Litvinenko's case, head of the international movement Speak Up, Andrei Sidelnikov, said.
This year, St. Petersburg International Economic Forum is being held in a completely new format. VoR correspondent Anna Forostenko tells about peculiarities of the event:
Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation may not have yet the prominence of the Boeing Company or the Airbus Company. But even biased analysts could not have failed to see the remarkable achievements of the Russian aircraft-building giant, the achievements that have been displayed during the recent Le Bourget air show. The Voice of Russia exclusive interview with the Head of the United Aircraft Corporation, Mikhail Pogosyan.
Russia’s energy minister Alexander Novak has not ruled out that the St. Petersburg Economic Forum could yield gas purchase requests for Rosneft and Novatek.
“There have been offers, and I believe they’ll be a newsmaker tomorrow,” the energy chief said. This may refer to the expected deal between one of the Russian natural gas giants and China’s Sinopec Group.
After the reform of the power system,$45 billion were invested in the Russian energy sector, SPIEF participant, Executive Vice-President of the Fortum Corporation, Alexander Chuvaev,told in an interview with the VoR.
Russia and China have agreed to build a joint railway crossing worth $275 million on the border across the Amur River.
Russia’s second largest oil company Lukoil is cooperating with Russian lawmakers to boost shale oil production, Lukoil President Vagit Alekperov said on the sidelines of the Global Economic Forum in St. Petersburg.
The Fitch rating agency is concerned about the unregulated part of the Chinese banking sector. The so-called “shadow banks” pose systemic risks for the country’s economy.
The Iranian economy is experiencing severe stress caused by the international sanctions against Tehran. An unofficial estimate of the Iranian inflation rate is almost three times the official annual inflation figure.
The foreign exchange market is now in the crosshairs of the global financial regulators in the aftermath of the rate-rigging scandals in currency rates and interest rates markets.
Prominent US actor James Gandolfini has died at the age of 51. No cause of death was given, but his managers said it was possibly a heart attack. He is survived by his wife and two children.
Margo Fowler, a Vancouver math teacher, is being reprimanded for her technique she uses to silent students. Students who can’t keep quiet in class may have to deal with duct tape being slapped across their lips.
Three men with weapons barged into the Tshwane SPCA's Waltloo branch, in South Africa to take an animal into their possession. The dog was a male bull terrier.
Russia won’t accept US nuclear reduction proposal - official
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