ACRA wants to guarantee that investors receive in-depth quality analyses of Russian credit risk [Xinhua]
The BRICS Post (TBP) editor-in-chief Zeenat Saberin recently interviewed Ekaterina Trofimova, the first Chief Executive Officer of Russia’s new Analytical Credit Rating Agency (ACRA).
In Turkey the purges continue. There is little point in giving numbers because they change, upwards, every day but so far ‘about’ 60,000 people are reported to have been cleaned out of the education ministry, the judiciary, the police and the army, some dismissed, some suspended and some prosecuted. Thousands of private schools connected with Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen’s teachings have been closed: 15 universities have been closed or are in the process of being closed, along with numerous charities and unions deemed as Gulenist.
India’s “pendency problem” has been a topic of discussion for a while now, but came to the forefront recently when the Chief Justice claimed that the country needs 70,000 judges to handle the burden.
As of 01.01.2016 India had a total of 31,035,237 cases pending at all levels of the three-tiered judiciary.
The vast majority of the cases, over 27 million, are pending in the lowest rung, that is, the trial courts.
One of the looming mysteries during the last several months of Brazil’s political crisis (as The Intercept has repeatedly noted) has been the complete absence of polling data from the country’s largest media outlets and polling firms. The lower house voted on April 17 — more than three months ago — to send to the Senate impeachment charges against democratically elected President Dilma Rousseff, which resulted in the temporary installation of her vice president, Michel Temer, as “interim president.”
Over the years, the US has challenged the so-called “excessive maritime claims” of countries around the world through its “freedom of navigation” (FON) operations. Lately, China’s islands and waters in the South China Sea have become a main target of those operations.
In contrast, the US seems to have no problem with Japan’s much criticized claim to an EEZ, continental shelf and outer continental shelf of Okinotorishima.
What is the reason behind the apparent contradiction?
An army coup in Turkey that on Friday night seemed a fait accompli swiftly lost its momentum and saw Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan come back on the scene strong as never before with allies and opponents alike rallying behind him.
However, the implications of the failed attempt to overthrow the president are going to be long-lasting, far-reaching and may yield unexpected benefits for the Turkey-Russia relationship.
This week the Bertelsmann Stiftung and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) published the first country-level index of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These Goals combine a set of ambitious objectives adopted by the United Nations member countries to improve the lives of all people and build a more sustainable, inclusive and prosperous world over the next 15 years.
Two years ago, Mr. Narendra Modi led the Bharatiya Janata Party to a huge, even spectacular, victory in the Indian parliamentary elections, to form the first majority government in several decades, indeed since the late 1980s. This generated both hope and trepidation. Hope, because Mr.
Of all the BRICS countries, India has been the stand-out economic performer in the last few years. Alexander Rost, Regional Head Indian Subcontinent & ASEAN at Commerzbank, explains the factors behind its recent success, and sets out a blueprint for sustaining the country’s economy through industry and trade.
In recent years, BRICS countries, on the whole, have faced significant political and economic challenges.
On a recent visit to Paris almost everyone I met asked me the same question: “Are you British insane? Are you really going to vote to leave the European Union?”
Based on the most recent polls, despite the deep scepticism of those same surveys after the last General Election, I could only answer: “It looks that way.”
Cue disbelieving looks, gasps and snorts of Gallic derision, often followed by the words: “You can always come and live here.”
